Change in functionality of the IN operator and introduction of LIKE

January 15, 2025

The APEX AIOps team announces that the IN operator in scope queries in APEX AIOps Incident Management is updated to comply with the standard functionality of IN as of January 15, 2025.

This change may affect your organization if you currently use an IN operator in scopes for metric policies, correlation definitions, maintenance windows, or workflows. If you have the OnCall feature enabled, this could potentially impact notification policies.

Starting on January 15, the IN operator in scope queries only returns true for exact matches. In prior releases, the IN operator performed a CONTAINS operation on strings and would return true when part of a string matched. The IN operator no longer returns true for partial matches within a string.

To accommodate previously created queries that rely on the former behavior of the operator, the LIKE operator was added. LIKE matches strings within field values in the same way as IN prior to the change.

Refer to Example 5, “The in operator” for details on the new behavior of IN and Example 6, “The like operator” for the LIKE operator.

Please contact Support with any questions or concerns.