topic Re: Nice to know )-; using "contains as a matcher" in Log Analytics

Nice to know )-; using "contains as a matcher"

henk_stobbe — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 10:10:23 GMT

Hello all,

So I can use "contains" in a dql filter but not as a matcher when creating a log-metric:

KR Henk

Re: Nice to know )-; using "contains as a matcher"

KeeganNelson — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:14:03 GMT

Hi Henk!

I think the equivalent of this would be using matchesPhrase. DOCS.

Hope this helps!

Re: Nice to know )-; using "contains as a matcher"

henk_stobbe — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 19:30:58 GMT

matchesPhrase is a case-insensitive contains, so you are 90% right (-;

Re: Nice to know )-; using "contains as a matcher"

StrangerThing — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:02:37 GMT

matchesPhrase does have some special character limitations as well, but you can use the caseSensitive flag on matchesPhrase to make it case sensitive if you want

matchesPhrase(content, "test", caseSensitive:true)