Splunk Search

Nested Search Query on across multiple files

tanyongjin
Explorer

Hi,

I am trying to do a nested search. in Log A, I want to get all the users who has accessed "X". So my search query is like:

source="my_source" users="" Access="X" | top 0 users*

This allows me to get all the users who accessed X in Log A.

Then in Log B (could be a combination of multiple logs), I wanted to use the results from Log A previously to filter out all the log entries from these returned users.

How can I write my query to retrieve the data from my users?

Thank you.

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lguinn2
Legend

Try this

NOT [ search source="my_source" users="*" Access="X" | stats count by users | fields users ] (source=B OR source=C)

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ecanmaster
Explorer

looks good
,looks good

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lguinn2
Legend

Try this

NOT [ search source="my_source" users="*" Access="X" | stats count by users | fields users ] (source=B OR source=C)
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tanyongjin
Explorer

Thanks. After removing the "NOT", I got the results I want.

However, the user search is not case sensitive in 2nd source. How can I enforce case sensitivity in the search?

Thanks again.

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