Specify alert fields

Specify fields to show in alerts through search language

The results of an alerting search job (in an alert email, for example) includes all the fields in those results. To include or exclude specific fields from the results, use the fields command in the base search for the alert.

• To eliminate a field from the search results, pipe your search to fields - $FIELDNAME.
• To add a field to the search results, pipe your search to fields + $FIELDNAME.

You can specify multiple fields in one string. The following search generates an alert that excludes $FIELD1 and $FIELD2, but includes $FIELD3 and $FIELD4.

yoursearch | fields - $FIELD1,$FIELD2 + $FIELD3,$FIELD4