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The search field in the dashboard header finds pages, clients, services, metrics, and measurements. It can also turn what you type into a filter for the Measurements Explorer.

Open the search in one of these ways:

  • Click the Search… field in the header. On narrow screens, it is a search icon.
  • Press Ctrl+K (or Cmd+K on macOS) anywhere.
  • Press / when the cursor is not in a text field.

Use the arrow keys to move through the results and press Enter to open one. Press Esc or click outside the search to close it.

When the field is empty, it shows your recent searches, a few common pages, and example searches that you can click.

What you can search for

  • Pages – Type a page name or a keyword, for example org for Organization Settings or keys for all key pages.
  • Clients – Search by label, UUID, tag, group name, or ISP.
  • IDs – A number such as 12345 offers the measurement, client, or study with that ID. A UUID opens the matching client. An anomaly ID opens that anomaly.
  • Services – A service name such as netflix offers its video measurements, studies, and anomalies. Common short names work too, for example prime for Amazon Prime Video or disney for Disney+.
  • Measurement types – Type a type name such as video or web.
  • Metrics – Type a metric with a comparison, such as mos < 4 or rtt > 100. The supported operators are <, <=, >, >=, and =. A metric name alone, such as rtt, finds all measurements with that metric.
  • Studies, domains, hostnames, URLs, and cities – These are looked up in the measurements of the current time range.
  • Metadata, parameters, and notes – Type an identifier that your measurements or studies carry in their metadata, parameters, or notes, or a word from a video title. You can also paste a page or video URL.

You can combine a service or identifier with a metric. For example, netflix mos < 4 opens the video measurements for Netflix with a MOS below 4.

Tip

Common short names work for metrics, too: mos, rtt, ping, download (or dl), upload (or ul), lcp, fcp, cls, inp, stalling, loss, hops, jitter, throughput, and latency.

How results are applied

Some results open a page directly, such as a client or a measurement. Other results set a filter:

  • Metric comparisons and metadata searches set the advanced results filter. They replace any query that was there before.
  • If the current page can use the filter, the filter is added to the current page and the time range is kept.
  • Otherwise, the dashboard opens the matching Measurements Explorer page and keeps only the time range.

If you type a valid query in Lucene syntax, such as statistic_values.p1203_overall_mos:<4, you can apply it as an advanced filter.

Note

Lookups for studies, domains, hostnames, URLs, cities, and metadata only search the active time range. The result group headings show which range is used. If you don't find a value, choose a longer time range first.

If the AI assistant is enabled, the last result lets you ask the assistant about your search text. This opens the chat with the text filled in, but does not send it.