I am attempting to create a ML job to detect rare source IPs. Using the Anomaly Detection wizard, I selected Categorization, then picked Rare and picked the source.address for Categorization field. However, I get the following error: Selected category field is invalid 1000 field values analyzed, 0%…

Anomaly Detection for Rare IPs

richcollier (rich collier) September 12, 2022, 11:03am 2

Categorization is used to process unstructured text, not to deal with fields like IP addresses. You can just apply rare to the IP address by setting the IP address as the by_field. See this older article for examples.

Also, see this other idea about only analyzing the first octet of IP addresses

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Anomaly Detection for Rare IPs

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