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How Filter and Sort Work

The Explore filter bar applies the same selection to every Explore tab, remembers it for the current browser tab, and limits the list of datastores to what your team can access. This page explains those behaviors in detail.

How Filters Are Applied

When you change a filter on the Explore filter bar:

  1. The new selection is saved for the current browser tab.
  2. Every Explore tab (Insights, Activity, Profiles, Observability, Checks, and Anomalies) reads from the same selection.
  3. The data shown on each tab updates to match the selection without needing to reload the page.

When Filters Stay Applied

The filter bar remembers your selection in the current browser tab:

  • Across tab navigation (Explore → other pages → Explore): the selection is preserved.
  • Across a page refresh: the selection is restored when the page loads.
  • Across browser tabs or windows: each browser tab has its own selection. A new tab starts with no filters applied.
  • After closing the browser tab: the selection is cleared. Reopening Qualytics in a new tab starts with no filters applied.

How Selections Combine

Within a single field, multiple selections are combined with OR. Across fields, the selections are combined with AND.

For example, if you select datastores A and B, and tags production and critical, only data from datastore A or B that is also tagged production or critical appears on the Explore tabs.

Search Within Dropdowns

The Source Datastores and Tags dropdowns filter their option lists as you type. The search is case-insensitive and matches any part of the option's name. The search field shows the placeholder Type or choose.

For example, typing data matches both Healthcare Analytics and Production Data Warehouse.

Datastore List by Role

The list of datastores in the Source Datastores dropdown depends on your role:

  • Admin: every datastore in the workspace.
  • Member and Manager: only datastores their team has access to.

The list refreshes if your team membership changes. See Permissions for the full matrix.

Tags Available to Everyone

The Tags dropdown shows every tag in the workspace, regardless of role. Filtering by a tag whose data is only on datastores outside your team's access returns an empty result on the tabs.

URL Parameter

Applying a filter preset adds a ?filter=<id> parameter to the URL (see Filter Presets). Other filters (datastores, tags, report date, timeframe) do not appear in the URL — they are saved only within the current browser tab.

Copying the URL of a filtered Explore view restores only the filter preset selection on the recipient's side, not other filter combinations.

Sort

Each Explore tab has its own sort selection. The sort is independent of the filter bar and resets when you switch to a different Explore tab.