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using a inputlookup on string values - regex match?

sonicZ
Contributor

I am currently matching a list of "bad ips" with a search such as this

index=someindex NOT uri="/dot_clear.gif" [| inputlookup watchlist_ip_lookup.csv  | rename watch_ip as clientip | fields + clientip] | dedup clientip | lookup ga ip as clientip | table date_month, date_mday, date_hour, date_minute, date_year, clientip, country, org, status, referer, uri, host, source, sourcetype, index, other

how can i do a similar search with a partial text match in say the URI, say from sourcetype access_combined searching on a partial domain match like .*somedomain.com.* ?
I would like to use these domain strings in a inputlookup table like the ip list i attached above
possibly with a rex match on the uri? i am just not getting the format right.

Thanks.

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Ayn
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If it's just a matter of using wildcards, you can let the regular search command take care of that.

index=someindex NOT [|inputlookup yourlookup | eval query="uri=*".domain."*" | fields query] | ...

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Ayn
Legend

If it's just a matter of using wildcards, you can let the regular search command take care of that.

index=someindex NOT [|inputlookup yourlookup | eval query="uri=*".domain."*" | fields query] | ...

sonicZ
Contributor

Ayn, another follow up question 🙂
If i wanted to match on a string anywhere in the _raw events, But seems rather slow on large indexes.
Perhaps there is a better way.

index=www NOT uri="/dot_clear.gif" [|inputlookup watchlist_string_lookup | eval query="_raw=".watch_string."" | fields query] | lookup ga ip as clientip | table date_month, date_mday, date_hour, date_minute, date_year, clientip, country, org, status, referer, uri, host, source, sourcetype, index, other, watch_string

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sonicZ
Contributor

Thanks Ayn, i changed domain to my "watch_list" header in the csv and that works for me 🙂
Edit:
actually i removed the NOT too, this and it seems to work

index=someindex NOT uri="/dot_clear.gif" earliest=-1h [|inputlookup watchlist_string_lookup | eval query="uri=".watch_string."" | fields query] | lookup ga ip as clientip | table date_month, date_mday, date_hour, date_minute, date_year, clientip, country, org, status, referer, uri, host, source, sourcetype, index, other

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