Use controls for interactive filtering

View the types of controls you can use to filter charts on your dashboard.

Use a “Calendar” control to filter connected charts on a specific date or date range.

Use a “Date bucket” control to change the time grouping for connected charts.

Use a “Date slider” control to focus on a specific date range for a particular metric.

Use a “Dropdown” control to display query results as a list used to filter multiple charts on a dashboard.

Use a “Hidden variable” control to set filter values without a visible control on the dashboard.

Use a “Range input” control to filter data based on a selected numeric range.

Use a “Text input” control to filter charts for exact or partial string matches.

Edit, reset, or delete controls on a dashboard.

Improve chart performance by referencing a control outside of a query in Visual SQL.

Drill down into the data of a chart and filter the current dashboard or a different dashboard accordingly.

Use SQL mode to use partial string matching for “Text input” controls.

Learn how to create controls using the control editor.