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"Join" on a lookup not returning everything

DBattisto
Communicator

Hello! I am troubleshooting a report, and I've cut it all down to the very basics with the following two snippets. Basically, 'join' with a csv is not returning expected results. This dataset between Sept-1 and Sept-2 has about 75,000 unique entries (but the base search with "value=374667" only has about 30!).

 

 

index="xxx" sourcetype="xxx" value="374667"
timeformat="%Y-%m-%d" earliest="2021-09-01" latest="2021-09-02"
| join value [inputlookup lookup.csv]
| dedup value
| chart count

 

 

The above query returns 0 (incorrect).

 

 

index="xxx" sourcetype="xxx" value="374667"
timeformat="%Y-%m-%d" earliest="2021-09-01" latest="2021-09-02"
| dedup value
| chart count

 

 

The above query returns 1 (expected).

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Have you tried a lookup instead of join with inputlookup?

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