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Does the performance of the kvstore lookup definition improve when it filters the original collection?

landen99
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When a kvstore lookup definition filters a kvstore of 1 million events down to 300k, does performance improve vs using the original kvstore collection unfiltered?

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landen99
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http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Transformsconf?splunkbot

filter = <string>
* Filter results from the lookup table before returning data. Create this filter like you would a typical search query using Boolean expressions and/or comparison operators.
* For KV Store lookups, filtering is done when data is initially retrieved to improve performance.
* For CSV lookups, filtering is done in memory.

It looks like performance is improved after the filter is applied on reading the kvstore.

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landen99
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http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/Transformsconf?splunkbot

filter = <string>
* Filter results from the lookup table before returning data. Create this filter like you would a typical search query using Boolean expressions and/or comparison operators.
* For KV Store lookups, filtering is done when data is initially retrieved to improve performance.
* For CSV lookups, filtering is done in memory.

It looks like performance is improved after the filter is applied on reading the kvstore.

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