Combining Queries with Compound Searching in Elasticsearch 7.13

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Combining Queries with Compound Searching in Elasticsearch 7.13

For more complicated queries, you need to be able to combine many different search functions together. You can do this with compound search functions in Elasticsearch. In this hands-on lab, you will leverage compound search functions and boolean logic to write and combine term-level and full-text queries into a single search request.

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Lab Info

Level

Advanced

Last updated

Sep 23, 2025

Duration

1h 30m

Challenge

Craft a Query That Answers the Question: How Many Web Requests Originate from Either US or CN Where the Response Was Not 200?

From the Kibana console, craft a compound query on the logs dataset that answers the question.
Challenge

Craft a Query That Answers the Question: How Many Web Requests with a 200 Response and at Least 2 Tags with 'success', 'security', or 'info' Value Are Not from a Machine with a Windows Operating System?

From the Kibana console, craft a compound query on the logs dataset that answers the question.
Challenge

Craft a Query That Answers the Question: How Many Web Requests Were Made for apm-server RPM or DEB Files by Users Using an OS X Operating System?

From the Kibana console, craft a compound query on the logs dataset that answers the question. Filter down the results to only include files between 1024 and 8192 bytes without effecting relevancy scoring.

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