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I want to see a table of the hosts that are in the first search but not in the second.

ehastings1982
Explorer

We have firewalls sending SYSLOG into us. We also get traffic logs from the firewalls. What Im trying to do is first get a list of all hosts (easy enough), and then search for the ones that have not sent a message that contains a field value.

So my searches would look like this

Search 1:

host=*

Search 2:
policy_id=23

Now I want to see a table of the hosts that are in the first search but not in the second.

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aholzer
Motivator
host=* policy_id!=23

This will get you all hosts that do not have a policy_id of 23

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aholzer
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host=* policy_id!=23

This will get you all hosts that do not have a policy_id of 23

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aholzer
Motivator

That's exactly right. Your "if it was policy 23 mark pol23 as 1" explanation goes across 2 pipes, the eval and the stats sum, but your explanation is as good as what I could give 🙂

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ehastings1982
Explorer

AMAZING!. Now so I can learn this can you explain it? My attempt:

get all the hosts | count each time each device used each policy | if it was policy 23 mark pol23 as 1 | if there is a 0 in the no23 display the table of hosts ?

aholzer
Motivator

Ah, I think I understand your use case now.

host=* | stats count by host, policy_id | eval pol23 = if(policy_id=23,1,0) | stats sum(pol23) as no23 by host | where no23=0 | table host

This should get you a list of hosts excluding all hosts that have even one event that had a policy_id=23 in it.

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ehastings1982
Explorer

That will just filter my results to not show anything with policy_23. What I want to know is what hosts has no results for policy_id=23.

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