Splunk Search

How to edit my search to exclude the top 20 noisy results and return the rest?

phant0mgh0st
New Member

I have a splunk search for a list of users performing a particular task. I want to exclude the top 20 noisy results and fetch the other results. How can I do it?
Please help me with this, my sample query is :

source="x"  | stats count by a,b | fields + a,b,count | sort count desc.

Now this generates a big list of results out of which I want to filter out the top 20 noisy results. I tried top 20 followed by the rare command or tail with the reverse command but it doesn't fetch the right results.

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Vijeta
Influencer

@phant0mgh0st Try something like below to exclude top 20 noisy results

source="x" | stats count by a,b | fields + a,b,count | sort 0 count desc | streamstats count as id| where id > 20
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koshyk
Super Champion

The reason is because, sort limits to 10K results by default settings.
An easier option is to do the limiting before itself

source="x" | top a by b
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KailA
Contributor

Hello,

After sorting your data, you can try that :

| streamstats count as nb
| where nb > 20

This will remove the first 20 rows of your table 🙂
Let me know if it helps you.

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