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Subsearch: How can we only see results when they are NOT found?

mattheuslima
Explorer

I running a subsearch where i use a ID to find events from the index B in the index A.

What I want to do is: list the ID's from the index B that was not found in the index A

The subsearch structure is : search index=A search index=B |table ID's

How can I list the ID's that wasn't found?

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1 Solution

woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Skip the subsearch and do this:

index="A" OR index="B"
| stats dc(index) AS indexCount values(index) AS index BY ID
| where index="B" AND indexCount=1

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woodcock
Esteemed Legend

Skip the subsearch and do this:

index="A" OR index="B"
| stats dc(index) AS indexCount values(index) AS index BY ID
| where index="B" AND indexCount=1
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manjunathmeti
Champion

You need to use NOT.

index=A NOT [search index=B | table ID's]
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