Filtering the Anomaly Detections report by dimension

You can reduce what data is included in the chart by editing the dimension filtering to include or exclude specific dimensions and to limit the display of filtered dimensions to a specified top-N number of values.

Before you begin

Before you do this task you need to know the filtering options you want to use and the values that you want to add.

About this task

For example, suppose that you are interested in Anomaly Detection values for specific URLs on your web application. Depending on the site, the list of URLs can be too long to be useful. Using dimensional filtering, you can limit the report to display only the top 25 values. For various reasons, you may have already decided to filter the list of values in the URL (Normalized) dimension to a whitelist of accepted and useful URLs. In Discover, use the Report Builder to filter the reports to display only the top 25 values from the whitelist.

In the definition of the dimension, some filtration and remapping of dimension values may already be specified in a whitelist or a blacklist. When data is detected, these modifications are made before the data is available for reporting.

Procedure

  1. To filter the report that is based on a dimension that you include, click the drop-down menu next to the included dimension and select Filter.
  2. Choose your filtering option from the drop-down.
  3. To specify values to filter, click Add Values.
  4. The Dimension Value Selector is displayed:
  5. Select the dimension values to include or exclude.
  6. Click Apply.
  7. The Dimension Filter dialog is displayed again.
  8. To remove any listed filter value, click the X icon next to it.
  9. To apply changes to dimension filtering, click Apply. The report is automatically updated.