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How to write a search to return values from source1 that do not appear in source2 and source3?

dfigurello
Communicator

Hi Splunkers,

I have three sources in my Splunk deployment:
(all_cardnumbers.csv, fraud_detect1_card.csv and fraud_detect1_card.csv)

all_cardnumbers_card
1111#####1010
1111#####1011
1111#####1012
1111#####1013
1111#####1014
1111#####1015

fraud_detect1_card
1111#####1012
1111#####1013

and the last one fraud_detect2_card source:
1111#####1014
1111#####1015

I'd like to create a new field called no_fraud with the results:
1111#####1010
1111#####1011

Can you guys help me to do a search for this?

Cheers.

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jplumsdaine22
Influencer

I'm assuming your events have only a single field, cardID, (apart from the default fields like source and host).

You should be able to get around using a subsearch with the following. Depending on the size of your fraud_detect csvs, Iguinns subsearch method could be faster - I would try both.

source=*card | stats values(source) as source by cardID | search NOT (source=fraud_detect1_card  OR source=fraud_detect2_card) | rename cardID as no_fraud | table no_fraud 

lguinn2
Legend

Try this

source=all_cardnumbers_card NOT [ search source=fraud_detect*_card | dedup cardID | fields cardID ]

This uses the subsearch feature of Splunk. Note that there are limits to subsearches, so you may want to read the manual page here.

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