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How to find differences between two saved searches based on a common field?

Splunk_321
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I have two saved searches 

1) Metrics-Location-Client -- Gives LocationId, Client_Name as output

2) Matched-Locations -- Gives LocationId

I want to get count of locationIds by Client_Name which are present in Metrics-Location-Client but not in Matched-Locations.

Below is the one which I am trying but its not working it seems.

| savedsearch "Metrics-Location-Client"
| join Left=L Right=R where L.LocationId!=R.LocationId
[ savedsearch "Matched-Locations" ]
| stats count(L.LocationId) as MonitoringCalls by L.Client_Name

I have tried set diff as well, but not working

| set diff
[ savedsearch "Metrics-Location-Client" ]
[ savedsearch "Matched-Locations" ]
| stats count(LocationId) by Client_Name

Any help would be appreciated!

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yuanliu
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

"not working" is not a problem statement.  What does your code give you?  Why does the result not satisfy your requirement (in terms of sample data)?

Perhaps more importantly, as many - me included, will tell you, try not to use join or set operations if you can avoid it.  Do the two saved search work on the same set of data?  Is there some way to fetch (typically using search command) all raw data needed for the saved searches in one raw search?  Does one (or both) not contain generating command? (For this reason, it is often not a good idea for macros to contain generating command.)  Join and set are particularly inefficient, whereas Splunk stats are extremely efficient.

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