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How do I get a Splunk conditional lookup command to match only specific values?

SplunkNewbie18
New Member

Hi,

My search is based on 3 sources (firewall log, ioc feed macro and lookup table for ioc). To check for any match on ioc for the destip field.

index=firewall
| search [<macro>
| table destip
| format]
| lookup <lookup table> srcip as destip OUTPUT columnA as A
| lookup <lookup table> srcip as destip OUTPUT columnB as B
| table _time, destip, A, B

However, 1 ioc can have multiple row of data in the for column B:

destip-B
1.1.1.1-high  
1.1.1.1-low

Hence, the result of the above SPL will give me:

_time-destip-A-B
<time>-1.1.1.1-<output A>-high low

How do i include a condition to only lookup and match the ioc for only "high" events in column B in the lookup table, to be as below ouput?

_time-destip-A-B
<time>-1.1.1.1-<output A>-high
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skoelpin
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

I'll be the first to say this.. Your query is going to be painfully slow and will not scale, especially with firewall logs.

Instead, you should lump all 3 sources together like this

(index=firewall sourcetype=...) OR (index=...) 
| stats count by srcip
| lookup 

Also, rather than using table, you should use a stats before the lookup for better performance

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