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Filtering on keywords with exceptions

nidhsha2
New Member

Hi,
I am trying to figure out if there is an easy way to filter based on a word and its negative-form.

For example, I want to filter for all data that does NOT include "dog" , BUT if there is a response with "no dog", then I want to capture that data as well.

index=data_log AND response!="*dog*"

Any ideas on this?

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

index=data_log AND (response!="*dog*" OR response="*no dog*")

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Like this:

index=data_log AND (response!="*dog*" OR response="*no dog*")
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nidhsha2
New Member

Did the trick, thank you!

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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Try this

index=data_log AND (response!="*dog*" OR response="no dog")

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nidhsha2
New Member

Unfortunately I did try that, and my response of "no dog" is still not included. I think the != dog takes precedence over my next OR statement?

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