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I was asked this today and I have absolutely what the answer is - why are some fields shaded with a different color in search?
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Field shading in Cribl Search indicates field coverage in data set
Best answer by paul925
Field coverage in the data set. The darker the shading, the more events contain that field
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Short answer: grey/shaded rows = built-in fields, non-shaded rows = fields extracted from the data.
@user also note if you go to the "Fields" tab after running a Search, you'll see a more quantitative view of the Presence metric, which should make the shading clear.
NB: This is particularly helpful when your dataset is heterogeneous ie contains more than one Datatype.
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