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Exclude events with specific field value from results

beaunewcomb
Communicator

How would I exclude all events which contain a specific field value from a set of search results?

For instance:
source="mysource" | sort -_time | table UserLoginName _time | dedup UserLoginName

Gives me a table of usernames and last login time.

I'd like to filter out one of the users (say, SYSTEM) from the results...

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hexx
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You could simply add the search term "UserLoginName!=SYSTEM" or "NOT UserLoginName=SYSTEM" to the first command of your search :


source="mysource" UserLoginName!="SYSTEM" | sort -_time | table UserLoginName _time | dedup UserLoginName

If you are curious to find out more about the search language and its syntax, I recommend to consult our search tutorial :

http://www.splunk.com/base/Documentation/latest/User/WelcometotheSplunktutorial

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