Filters

What are they?

Filters can:

• Select specific data sets for:
• Dashboards, Sections, and cards
• Analysis, Reports, Inventory and configuration
• Directly include or exclude data sets
• Have a hierachy. Dashboard filters influence the whole dashboard whereas a card-level filter will only influence the card.
• Be saved
• Support:
• Categorical results such as Metadata, Applications and Zones
• Metric results Capture or session
• Wildcards and selections
• Alerts

• Simultaneously include and exclude IPs. This way, you can include IP ranges, but exclude specific IPs if needed.
  

• Simultaneously include and exclude zones. This way, you can include zone ranges, but exclude specific zone if needed.

Example
Filters in action on a Dashboard:

Options

• Define a filter opens dialog box
• Bookmarked, Saved and Recently used – Saves time and remembers per user
• Starting to type in box, searches for category, metric or alert
• Groups for rapid filter definition – Alert, Capture, Session
• Selection dependent options. Based on type
• Filters only apply to the data type they relate (Alert, Session & Capture)
• Filters are retained on linked dashboards and into Analysis
• Filters in widgets are defined and changed only during authoring
• Filters can be click activated from tables, line charts, TopN expand and Analysis

Where they are seen

Filters can be viewed in the following locations:

Monitoring: Dashboards, section, and card filters

Analysis

Inventory

Filters in action

Locations - Summary

• Monitoring
• Dashboards
• Sections
• Cards
• Click activation from Tables, line charts and TopN
• Analysis
• Simple definition
• Click activation from Distribution, Table and Trend Clusters
• Reports
• Inventory
• Special filter by session name, type and session filter
• User group configuration (Portal)
• Whitelist based
• Data access for Capture. Device, Zone and Application
• Session metadata
• Settings including policies for
• Busy Hours
• Maintenance Windows
• Alerts
• Thresholds

Capabilities

• Perfect for grouping and drill down.
• Dashboard with a card per key application
• Table of key performance indicators per region or Zone (location)
• TopN per part of a network – EPC, Core, Edge, Aggregation, Cell
• Selective drill down based on what is seen
• Inclusive or Exclusive to move TopN (East worse, what about the rest?)
• Multiple filters, multiple selections and wildcards
• Filters define what can be seen (Customer Portal)