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AnomaliDetection does not detect outlier data

ashishmgupta
Explorer

In the below dataset, there are two different ISPs for the user from their usual ones.
NordVPN for John and Quadranet for Jill – but this search using anomalidetection is detecting only john’s but not Jill’s.
Any idea why and what is the better way to detect the ISP outlier?

source="isp_data2.csv"  index="test" sourcetype="csv"
| anomalydetection "ISP" "EmailAddress" action=annotate
| eval isOutlier = if(probable_cause != "", "1", "0")
| table "ISP" "EmailAddress", probable_cause, isOutlier
| sort 100000 probable_cause

 

 

EmailAddressISPtimestamp
[email protected]Comcast1/1/2020
[email protected]Comcast1/2/2020
[email protected]Comcast1/3/2020
[email protected]Comcast1/4/2020
[email protected]Comcast1/5/2020
[email protected]Comcast1/6/2020
[email protected]Comcast1/7/2020
[email protected]Comcast1/8/2020
[email protected]Comcast1/9/2020
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]NordVPN########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Comcast########
[email protected]Spectrum2/1/2020
[email protected]Spectrum2/2/2020
[email protected]Spectrum2/3/2020
[email protected]Spectrum2/4/2020
[email protected]Spectrum2/5/2020
[email protected]Spectrum2/6/2020
[email protected]Spectrum2/7/2020
[email protected]Spectrum2/8/2020
[email protected]Spectrum2/9/2020
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Quadranet########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum########
[email protected]Spectrum3/1/2020
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tscroggins
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi @ashishmgupta,

As a quick fix, try:

| anomalydetection "ISP" "EmailAddress" action=annotate cutoff=false

tayvionp
Explorer

You seem to be missing the filter command
| where isOutlier=1

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