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Filtering on combination of 2 values

jpfrancetic
Path Finder

Hi Splunk Community,

I am currently working with a search but I am trying to filter certain events out. I am trying to remove events with user=unknown and id=123456. When I do | where (id=123456 AND user!="unknown"), it removes both events with an unknown user and events with the id = 123456. I would like to keeps all other events with an unknown user and all other events from 123456 while only dropping events where user is unknown AND id=123456.

Thanks in advance!

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Stefanie
Builder

Try this?

|search NOT ((id=123456 AND user="unknown"))

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Chiranjeev
Explorer

you can try |where !(id=123456 AND user="unknown").

hope it helps ,give a thumbs up if you like the answer

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Stefanie
Builder

Try this?

|search NOT ((id=123456 AND user="unknown"))

jpfrancetic
Path Finder

Worked like a charm, thank you!

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