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Cloud search and filtering

This topic explains how to work with the following search features:

  • Context-based search

  • Filter-based search

What is context-based search?

This feature provides a quick way to view Inventory-based filtered information on a number of pages. Context-base search shows resources in the context of what is being searched. For example, if you were to select AWS instead of Azure in your search on a given page, a subsequent search would give results for only your AWS cloud resources but not your Azure cloud resources.

Pages with the feature

  • Inventory

  • Traffic

  • Map

  • Application > Inventory tab

  • Application > Traffic tab

Context-based search caveats

  • The Inventory page search feature accepts limited types of filters (in other words, these search values narrow down all inventory supplied metadata values):

    • Cloud

    • Account Name

    • Account ID

    • Region

    • Resource Type

    • Resource Group

    • Resource Name

    • Resource State

    • VPC/VNET ID

    • Subnet ID

    • Cloud Tags

    • Labels

    • Categories

  • CSP id, VPC id, VNET id, subnet id,, cloud tag, Resource Group, and Resource Name metadata types are supplied by Inventory, but are not accepted as metadata list filters, so the selection of these values has no impact on context-based search

  • Account IDs are supplied by integrations, and support only cloud context

  • Labels are supplied by the labeling service and support no context

What is filter-based search?

This feature provides a quick way to view filtered policy information on the Policies, Onboarding, Application Discovery, Tag to Label Mapping pages and their child tabs.

Policies page tabs with the feature

The following example shows what is available on the Policies page. Other pages will offer filters relevant to the context of those pages. They are too numerous to list here.

  • Organization Policies, which has the following filter terms:

    • Name, Status, Provision Status

  • Application Policies, which has the following filter terms:

    • Name, Environment, Status

  • Services, which has the following filter terms:

    • Name, Ports, Protocol

  • IP Lists, which has the following filter terms:

    • Name, Provision Status

Using filter-based search

Use the dropdown search field dropdown to select filters, such as Provision Status: Added in the case of the Organization Policies tab. Other tabs offer filters relevant to the context of those tabs, as shown in the preceding list.