# Search Operator

## Overview

Search through logs for text with `search`.

```kusto
| search [not] <string constant> [and|or ...]*
```

See [string datatypes](https://docs.panther.com/data-types#string) for more information on how to format arguments.

## Examples

{% hint style="info" %}
Example data

```kusto
let aws_alb = datatable [
  {"p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:45:34.863", "requestHttpMethod": "GET", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/1.1", "sslCipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"},
  {"p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:59:04.058", "requestHttpMethod": "POST", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/1.1", "sslCipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"},
  {"p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:36:09.017", "requestHttpMethod": "GET", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/2.0", "sslCipher": "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256", "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1 Safari/605.1.15"},
  {"p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:36:09.017", "requestHttpMethod": "GET", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/1.1", "sslCipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "userAgent": "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; pl) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.61"}
];
```

{% endhint %}

### Search for a string

The below query finds logs that contain the string `GET`:

```kusto
aws_alb
| search 'GET'
```

| EVENT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `{ "p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:45:34.863", "requestHttpMethod": "GET", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/1.1", "sslCipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" }`      |
| `{ "p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:36:09.017", "requestHttpMethod": "GET", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/2.0", "sslCipher": "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256", "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1 Safari/605.1.15" }` |
| `{ "p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:36:09.017", "requestHttpMethod": "GET", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/1.1", "sslCipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "userAgent": "Opera/9.80 (X11; Linux i686; U; pl) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.61" }`                                                            |

### Search for complex patterns

The below query uses `and`, `or` and `not` to search for a complex pattern:

```kusto
aws_alb
| search ('GET' or 'POST') and not 'HTTP/1.1' and 'ECDHE'
```

| EVENT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `{ "p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:36:09.017", "requestHttpMethod": "GET", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/2.0", "sslCipher": "ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256", "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_4) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/11.1 Safari/605.1.15" }` |

### Search using wildcard matching

You can use an asterisk `*` for wildcard matching:

```kusto
aws_alb
| search 'mozilla*chrome'
```

| EVENT                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| `{ "p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:45:34.863", "requestHttpMethod": "GET", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/1.1", "sslCipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/118.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" }` |
| `{ "p_event_time": "2023-09-16 05:59:04.058", "requestHttpMethod": "POST", "requestHttpVersion": "HTTP/1.1", "sslCipher": "TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256", "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/126.0.0.0 Safari/537.36" }`      |


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# Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation

If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question.

Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://docs.panther.com/pantherflow/operators/search.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.