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Geoip - Limiting what is displayed

Armyeric
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In my search on a display:

index="stuff" severity="high" OR severity="medium" | top attacker limit=20 | geoip attacker

...the resulting panel shows attacker, count, percent, attacker_country_code, attacker_country_name, attacker_city, attacker_region_name, attacker_latitude, attacker_longitude

How do I limit the geoip (from within the search) to show only country code and region name? I don't see anywhere in the documentation as to how I would do that.

Thanks for the help!

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wrangler2x
Motivator

When I use geoip in a search it is as a lookup which would precede the stats command (or top, or whatever). This lookup is of the form

| lookup geoip clientip as ip

This makes several fields available to be explicitly referenced in the search. If you don't specify them they won't show up. So I'd guess that your geoip is some form of field that expands. Try replacing what you show above with the lookup and add the fields you want.

Alternatively, you could add

| fields attacker count percent attacker_country_code attacker_region_name

to the end of your search to limit the fields that are output.

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wrangler2x
Motivator

When I use geoip in a search it is as a lookup which would precede the stats command (or top, or whatever). This lookup is of the form

| lookup geoip clientip as ip

This makes several fields available to be explicitly referenced in the search. If you don't specify them they won't show up. So I'd guess that your geoip is some form of field that expands. Try replacing what you show above with the lookup and add the fields you want.

Alternatively, you could add

| fields attacker count percent attacker_country_code attacker_region_name

to the end of your search to limit the fields that are output.

Armyeric
Path Finder

THANKS! It didn't even cross my mind that the command makes those fields referable. I had to go with the second option though since, in the geoip setup, we do not have lookup geoip enabled.

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