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Search with where to filter based on wildcard variable

splunkreal
Influencer

Could you let me know why the results are not filtered (I hidden sensible data) with | where NOT like (source, "%stimeyesterday%")

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| tstats latest(_time) as latest,earliest(_time) as earliest WHERE (index=* AND ...) by host source sourcetype | eval lastevent=strftime(latest, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") | eval firstevent=strftime(earliest, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M")
... | eval timeYesterday=round(relative_time(now(), "-1d@d"))| eval stimeyesterday=strftime(timeYesterday, "%Y-%m-%d") | eval timeRelative=round(relative_time(now(), "@d")) | where latest < timeRelative | eval resultat=if(latest < timeRelative,"KO","OK") | eval stimerel=strftime(timeRelative, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M") | sort host | fields - latest earliest timeRelative timeYesterdayss | where NOT like(source,"%stimeyesterday%")

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dstoev
Path Finder

Hey @splunkreal , thank you for sharing this, it's quite useful!
I have similar eval command:

... | eval year_month=strftime(_time,"%Y-%m")."%" | where like(access_key_1_last_used_date, year_month) OR like(access_key_2_last_used_date, year_month)


which is setting year_month  to the following format YYYY-MM, e.g. 2021-12 and then search it in access_key_{1,2}_last_used_date fieldswhich have the following format 2021-11-20T00:35:38+00:00

So this is working just fine (thanks to the wildcard "%"), but if I ONLY change now() to _time it is not working.  If I simplify the search to:


...| eval year_month=strftime(now(),"%Y-%m")."%" | table year_month

Both results in the same:

splunk_query_year_month.pngsplunk_query_year_month.png

Any ideas?

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splunkreal
Influencer

Solved by support :

| where NOT like(source,stimeyesterday)
So, in your query, you can use something like, to add the %% around the filter string beforehand:
| eval stimeyesterday="%".strftime(timeYesterday, "%Y-%m-%d")."%"

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mayurr98
Super Champion

hey @realsplunk, I do not know what you are trying to achieve you want to filter out source which has stimeyesterday keyword? then

instead of | where NOT like(source,"%stimeyesterday%") use | search NOT source=*stimeyesterday*

let me know if this helps!

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splunkreal
Influencer

No, 2018-01-21 logs still there 😞

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mayurr98
Super Champion

which is the field that contains date? if you have a value in source field then only you can apply this query.
This works vertically not horizontally. pls, explain what table you got and what do you want to exclude.

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splunkreal
Influencer

see attachment here : https://answers.splunk.com/storage/attachments/226762-search.png thanks

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