Add field matching rules to your lookup configuration
These attributes provide field matching rules for lookups. They can be applied to all three lookup types. Add them to the transforms.conf
stanza for your lookup.
Attribute | Type | Description | Default |
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max_matches
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Integer | The maximum number of possible matches for each value input to the lookup table from your events. Range is 1-1000. If the time_field attribute is is not specified, Splunk software uses the first <integer> entries, in file order. If the time_field attribute is specified (because it is a time-bounded lookup), Splunk software uses the first <integer> entries, in descending time order. In other words, up to <max_matches> are allowed to match. When this number is surpassed, Splunk software uses the matches closest to the lookup value.
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100 if the time_field attribute is not specified. 1 if the time_field attribute is specified.
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min_matches
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Integer | The minimum number of possible matches for each value input to the lookup table from your events. You can use default_match to help with situations where there are fewer than min_matches for any given input.
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0 for both non-time-bounded lookups and time-bounded lookups, which means nothing is output to your event if no match is found. |
default_match
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String | When min_matches is greater than 0 and and Splunk software finds fewer than min_matches for any given input, it provides this default_match value one or more times until the min_matches threshold is reached.
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Empty string |
case_sensitive_match
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Boolean | Specify true to consider case when matching input lookup table fields. Specify false to ignore case when matching lookup fields.Does not apply to KV Store lookups. Reverse lookups also require reverse_lookup_honor_case_sensitive_match=true .
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true
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reverse_lookup_honor_case_sensitive_match
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Boolean | For reverse lookups, the definition of the "input field" and the "output field" are flipped. Because the Splunk software applies case_sensitive_match to the input field, this means that reverse lookups need an additional case-sensitive match setting for the output field. When reverse_lookup_honor_case_sensitive_match=true and when case_sensitive_match=true , Splunk software performs case-sensitive matching for all fields in reverse lookups. When reverse_lookup_honor_case_sensitive_match=false , Splunk software performs case-insensitive matching for all fields in reverse lookups, even when case_sensitive_match=true .This setting does not apply to KV Store lookups. This setting may default to false in an upcoming release.
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true
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match_type
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String | Allows non-exact matching of one or more fields arranged in a list delimited by a comma followed by a space. Format is match_type = <match_type>(<field_name1>, <field_name2>,...<field_nameN>) . Set match_type to WILDCARD to apply wildcard matching, or set it to CIDR to apply CIDR matching (specifically for IP address values).
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EXACT (does not need to be specified)
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Configure geospatial lookups | Configure a time-based lookup |
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 8.0.7, 8.0.8, 8.0.9, 8.0.10
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