> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.cortex.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Data Explorer reference Filter options vary depending on the metric you're viewing. For example, the **Opened PRs** metric shows version control filters, while **Story points completed** shows project management filters. For information on selecting a metric, see [Available metrics in Data Explorer](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/data-explorer/available-metrics-in-data-explorer.md#accessing-metrics-in-data-explorer). For information on accessing the filters listed below, refer to [Filtering and grouping metrics](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/data-explorer#step-2-filtering-and-grouping-metrics). ## Filter operators and selectors Some filters support operators and/or selectors. Select an operator/selector from the drop-down menu next to the filter name, then enter a value or values to define the range or condition. ### Numeric operators Available numeric operators: * Equals, Does not equal, >, ≥, \<, ≤, Is between, Is empty, Is not empty Numeric operators are found on the following filters: * **Version control** - Lines added, Lines deleted, Files changed, Number of comments, Commits, Cycle time, PR size * **Deployment** - Duration * **Incident** - Time to resolution * **Project management** - Story points, Time spent, Original estimate, Remaining estimate, Number of comments ### String operators Available string operators: * Is, Is not, Is empty, Is not empty, Contains, Excludes String operators are found on the following filters: * **Teams & Users** - Inherited team, User, Team, User label, User label name, Assignee, Assignee team, Assignee user label, Deployer, Incident assignee * **Entity** - Inherited domain, Inherited team owner, Domain, Entity, Entity type, Group, Entity owner * **Version control** - Label * **Deployment** - Environment, Status * **Project management** - Component, Label, Sprint, Status, Work item type > [!NOTE] > > Because they can never be empty, the following three filters have a slightly reduced set of operators \*\*(\*\*no **Is empty** / **Is not empty**): > > * **Version control** - Repository, Status > * **Project management** - Project > > One filter has its own set (**Equals**, **Does not equal**, **Is empty**, **Is not empty**): > > * **Version control** - Draft > > The **Scorecard** filter also has its own set (**Is**, **Is not**, **Is empty**, **Is not empty**): > > * **Scorecard** - Level ### Role selectors The Author/Reviewer role selector is found on the following filters: * **Version control** - User, Team, User label, User label name ## Example filter scenarios Filters are most useful when you combine them to answer a specific question. A few common examples: **Version control** * Filter **Cycle time** by **>** 3 days to find PRs that are taking longer than expected to ship. This can help you spot patterns like review bottlenecks. * Filter **Number of comments** by **Equals** 0 to find PRs that shipped with no review comments, a possible quality or risk signal. * Filter **PR size** by **>** 1,000 lines, or **Files changed** by **>** 10, to see the cycle time for your largest PRs and understand how PR size affects delivery speed. * Filter **Draft** by **Equals** true combined with **Cycle time** by **>** 7 days to catch PRs that have been sitting in draft for a long time, work that's stalled before it even reaches review. **Project management** * Filter **Story points** by **≥** 8 to surface large work items that may need to be broken down into smaller pieces. * Filter **Work item type** by **Is** "Bug" combined with **Time spent** by **>** 3 days to see which bugs are consuming the most engineering time. **Incidents** * Filter **Time to resolution** by **>** 12 hours to identify incidents where response is breaking down. **Deployments** * Filter **Duration** by **>** 30 minutes to spot patterns leading to slow deployments. * Filter **Environment** by **Is** "Staging" combined with **Status** by **Is not** "Success" to catch deployments failing in staging before they'd ever reach production. **Teams and users** * Filter **User label** by **Is** "AI User (last 7 days)" to compare cycle time or PR throughput between people using GitHub Copilot and those who aren't. * Filter **Team** with the **Reviewer** role selector to see how much review load a team is carrying across the org, not just on their own PRs. **Entity** * Filter **Entity type** by **Is** "Service" combined with **Group** by **Is** "Tier 1" to focus metrics on your most critical production services only. **Scorecards (table view only)** * Filter **Level** by **Is** "No level" to find entities that haven't reached the first level of a Scorecard yet, a quick way to see where adoption has stalled. * Filter **Level** by **Is not** "Level 3" alongside **Entity owner** to see which teams still have work left on a migration Scorecard. ## Filter definitions ### Teams and users The filters in this section focus on scoping data to specific people or teams. Available filters are dependent on the metric being viewed. | Filter | Definition | | - | - | | **Assignee** | View data for work items assigned to a specific user. | | **Assignee team** | View data for work items assigned to users belonging to a specific team. | | **Assignee user label** | View data for work items assigned to users with a specific [user label](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/eng-intelligence#group-by-user-label). | | **Deployer** | View data for deployments performed by a specific user. | | **Group** | View data only for entities associated with a specific [group](https://docs.cortex.io/ingesting-data-into-cortex/entities-overview/entities/groups.md). | | **Incident assignee** | View data for incidents assigned to a specific user. | | **Individual owner** | View data for metrics on entities owned by a specific user. For example, if Service X is owned by Marco, filtering by Marco only shows data for Service X even if the work was performed by someone else. | | **Inherited team** | View data for entities whose team is inherited from a parent entity in the hierarchy. | | **Team** | View data for a specific team. • For version control metrics, filters by the team of the PR author or reviewer (based on the **Version control team types** setting). • For deployment metrics, filters by the team of the deployer. • For incident metrics, filters by the team of the incident assignee. | | **Team owner** | View data for metrics on entities owned by a specific team. This only includes entities owned directly by the selected team, not its child teams. To include child teams' entities, use **Entity owner** with **Include child teams** on. | | **User** | View data authored by a specified user. | | **User label** | View data authored by users with a specific [user label](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/eng-intelligence#group-by-user-label). Cortex automatically creates an AI Usage label for GitHub Copilot usage with values **AI User (last 7 days)** and **Non-AI User (last 7 days)**. | | **User label name** | View data authored by users with a specific [user label](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/eng-intelligence#group-by-user-label) value. | ### Entity The filters in this section focus on scoping data to specific entities, entity types, or the groups they belong to. | Filter | Definition | | - | - | | **Inherited domain** | View data only for entities whose domain is inherited from a parent entity in the hierarchy. | | **Inherited team owner** | View data only for entities whose team owner is inherited from a parent entity in the hierarchy. | | **Domain** | View data only for entities belonging to a specific domain. | | **Entity** | View data only for a specific entity. | | **Entity type** | View data only for specific types of entities (such as services or teams). | | **Group** | View data only for entities associated with a specific [group](https://docs.cortex.io/ingesting-data-into-cortex/entities-overview/entities/groups.md). | | **Entity owner** | View data only for entities owned by a specific user or team. When you filter by a team, **Include child teams** is on by default, so entities owned by the team's child teams are included. Toggle it off to see only the selected team's entities. | ### **Version control** The filters in this section are specific to version control metrics and let you scope data by pull request attributes such as status, label, and repository. | Filter | Definition | | - | - | | **Label** | View data only for PRs tagged with a specific label. | | **Repository** | View data only for a specific repository. | | **Status** | View data for PRs in specified statuses. | | **Lines added** | View data for PRs with a specific number of lines added. | | **Lines deleted** | View data for PRs with a specific number of lines deleted. | | **Files changed** | View data for PRs with a specific number of files changed. | | **Number of comments** | View data for PRs with a specific number of comments. | | **Commits** | View data for PRs with a specific number of commits. | | **Draft** | View data filtered by whether PRs are drafts or not. | | **Bot generated** | View data filtered by whether PRs were generated by bots or not. | | **Cycle time** | View data for PRs within a specific cycle time range. | | **PR size** | View data for PRs within a specific size range (based on total lines of code modified). | ### **Deployments** The filters in this section are specific to deployment metrics and let you scope data by attributes such as deployment status and environment. | Filter | Definition | | - | - | | **Environment** | View data only related to a specific environment sent via the [deploys API](https://docs.cortex.io/api/rest/deploys). | | **Status** | View data for deployments in specified statuses. | | **Duration** | View data for deployments within a specific duration range. | ### **AI tools** There are no AI-specific filters. Only **Teams & Users** and **Entity** filters apply to AI tools metrics. ### **Project management** The filters in this section are specific to project management metrics and let you scope data by work item attributes such as status, type, sprint, and project. > [!NOTE] > > [Unique defaultJQL configurations](https://docs.cortex.io/ingesting-data-into-cortex/integrations/jira.md#set-a-default-jql-query-for-your-jira-integration) per entity aren't supported for filtering or segmenting data in Data Explorer. | Filter | Definition | | - | - | | **Component** | View data only for work items assigned to a specific component. | | **Label** | View data only for work items tagged with a specific label. | | **Project** | View data only for work items belonging to a specific project. | | **Sprint** | View data only for work items assigned to a specific sprint. | | **Status** | View data for work items in specified statuses. | | **Work item type** | View data for work items of a specific type. | | **Story points** | View data for work items with a specific story point value or range. | | **Time spent** | View data for work items with a specific amount of time logged. | | **Original estimate** | View data for work items with a specific original time estimate. | | **Remaining estimate** | View data for work items with a specific remaining time estimate. | | **Number of comments** | View data for work items with a specific number of comments. | ### **Incidents** The filters in this section are specific to incident-related metrics. > [!NOTE] > > **Team** and **user** filters are only supported for PagerDuty. | Filter | Definition | | - | - | | **Status** | View data for incidents in specified statuses. | | **Urgency** | View data for incidents in specified urgencies. | | **Time to resolution** | View data for incidents within a specific time-to-resolution range. | ### Custom metrics The filters in this section are specific to the custom metrics you created in Cortex. | Filter | Definition | | - | - | | **Inherited domain** | View data only for entities whose domain is inherited from a parent entity in the hierarchy. | | **Inherited team owner** | View data only for entities whose team owner is inherited from a parent entity in the hierarchy. | | **Domain** | View data only for entities belonging to a specific domain. | | **Entity** | View data only for a specific entity. | | **Entity type** | View data only for specific types of entities (such as services or teams). | | **Group** | View data only for entities associated with a specific [group](https://docs.cortex.io/ingesting-data-into-cortex/entities-overview/entities/groups.md). | | **Entity owner** | View data only for entities owned by a specific user or team. When you filter by a team, **Include child teams** is on by default, so entities owned by the team's child teams are included. Toggle it off to see only the selected team's entities. | ### Scorecard **(table view only)** The filter in this section applies to table view when a Scorecard column is in the report. Refer to [Scorecards in table view](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/data-explorer/available-metrics-in-data-explorer.md#scorecards-table-view-only) for more information. | Filter | Definition | | - | - | | **Level** | View data only for entities at a specific level on the Scorecard's ladder. Levels are listed by position, with the level name in parentheses, such as **Level 1 (Bronze)**. Select **No level** to find entities that haven't reached the first level yet. You can select more than one value. | ## 'Group by' definitions 'Group by' options vary depending on the metric you're viewing. For example, the **Cycle time** metric shows version control group by options, while **Story points completed** shows project management group by options. For information on selecting a metric, see [Available metrics in Data Explorer](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/data-explorer/available-metrics-in-data-explorer.md). For information on grouping metrics, refer to [Grouping metrics](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/data-explorer#grouping-metrics-chart-and-table-views). ### **Teams and users** The 'group by' options in this section let you segment data by specific people or teams. Available options are dependent on the metric being viewed. | Group by | Definition | | - | - | | **Team** | Group data by team. • For version control metrics, groups by the team of the PR author or reviewer (based on the **Version control team types** setting). • For deployment metrics, groups by the team of the deployer. • For incident metrics, groups by the team of the incident assignee. | | **User** | Group data by individual user. | | **User label** | Group data by [user label](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/eng-intelligence#group-by-user-label). | ### **Entity** The 'group by' options in this section let you segment data by entity-related attributes such as entity type, domain, or group. | Group by | Definition | | - | - | | **Entity** | Group data by individual entity. | | **Group** | Group data by the [group](https://docs.cortex.io/ingesting-data-into-cortex/entities-overview/entities/groups.md) the entity belongs to. | | **Domain** | Group data by the domain the entity belongs to. | | **Entity type** | Group data by entity type (such as services or teams). | | **Entity owner** | Group data by the user or team that owns the entity. | ### **Version control** The 'group by' options in this section are specific to version control metrics and let you segment data by pull request attributes. | Group by | Definition | | - | - | | **Repository** | Group data by repository. | | **Status** | Group data by PR status. | | **Label** | Group data by PR label. | | **Author** | Group data by PR author. | | **Reviewer** | Group data by PR reviewer. | ### **Deployments** The 'group by' options in this section are specific to deployment metrics and let you scope data by attributes such as environment. | Group by | Definition | | - | - | | **Environment** | The environment sent via the [deploys API](https://docs.cortex.io/api/rest/deploys). | ### **AI tools** There are no AI-specific 'group by' options. Only **Teams & Users** options apply to AI tools metrics. ### **Project management** The 'group by' options in this section are specific to project management metrics and let you segment data by project attributes. | Group by | Definition | | - | - | | **Project** | Group data by project. | | **Sprint** | Group data by sprint. | ### Incidents There are no incident-specific 'group by' options. **Teams & Users** and **Entity** options apply to incident metrics. ### Custom metrics The 'group by' options in this section are specific to the custom metrics you created in Cortex. | Group by | Definition | | - | - | | **Domain** | The domain associated with the entity. | ### Scorecards **(table view only)** There are no Scorecard-specific 'group by' options. Because Scorecard results are evaluated per entity, adding a Scorecard column limits grouping to the **Entity** options and relationship groupings. Team and user options aren't available while a Scorecard column is in the table. ### Relationships The 'group by' options in this section list the custom entity relationship types defined in your catalog. Each relationship type you've configured (for example, a service-to-repository or account-to-resource mapping) appears as its own grouping option. Select a relationship type to group and roll up metrics for entities connected through that relationship. Filtering by relationship isn't supported yet; these options are available for grouping only. ## Related topics - [Data Explorer](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/data-explorer.md) - [Available metrics in Data Explorer](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/data-explorer/available-metrics-in-data-explorer.md) - [Custom metrics](https://docs.cortex.io/improve/eng-intelligence/custom-metrics.md)