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Learning Kusto Query Language (KQL)
From the course: Microsoft Defender for Office 365
Learning Kusto Query Language (KQL)
- [Instructor] When it comes to KQL, I don't even need to show you how to program it because all the different prompts are built into advanced threat hunting for you. But this is going to give you a little bit of a lesson on how it all works. So don't worry. You don't have to be a programmer to understand this. Of course, if you are a programmer, then it'll be that much easier. To start with, we need a data source. Whenever we create any type of KQL query, which is done in advanced threat hunting, then it's going to need a data source. And I'll explain what that is and give you some examples in a second. After that, we need to have this pipe command. The pipe command signals to the query that we're going to have a filter or a modifier or a limiter. In other words, we're going to have a query about the data source from the previous line. Now we can add additional filters. We don't have to have just one filter modifier or a limiter, we can have as many different lines as we need to…