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field location in log effect search completion time

jerrythoms
Explorer

Noticing a big difference in time it takes to do a search on 2 different fields in a log. Is this just due to the slower one being at the end of the log? Its a firewall log (CIM)

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Please tell us more about the two fields. Share the two queries, if you can.

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jerrythoms
Explorer

just noticed a big difference it took to search for an dst ip verses a source ip. Basic query
index=firewall dst="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
vs
index=firewall src="xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"

It takes a lot longer for the search to complete for the src . I noticed that src was at the end of the log. I was wondering if that is the reason

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