Boolean and grouping operators
There are a few operators that you can use to refine your searches (note that these operators must be in uppercase so as not to be considered search terms):
- AND is implied between terms. For instance,
error mary(two words separated by a space) is the same aserror AND mary. - OR allows you to specify multiple values. For instance,
error OR marymeans find any event that contains either word. - NOT applies to the next term or group. For example,
error NOT marywould find events that containerrorbut do not containmary. - The quote marks ("") identify a phrase. For example,
"Out of this world"will find this exact sequence of words.Out of this worldwill find any event that contains all of these words, but not necessarily in that order. - Parentheses ( ( ) ) are used for grouping terms. Parentheses can help avoid confusion in logic. For instance, these two statements are equivalent:
bob error OR warn NOT debug(bob AND (error OR warn)) AND NOT debug
- The equal sign (=) is...