About filter criteria and filter expressions for custom reports

Filters let you customize reports to include only the information that meets specific criteria.

For example, you can use filters to find the following:

You use filter criteria to create filter expressions. You can use one or multiple filter expressions. A filter expression consists of a field name, an operator, and a value.

The following filter expression finds all alerts for errors:

Table: Filter expression for finding alerts for errors

Filter type

Data

Field name

Alert type

Operator

= (Equal)

Value

Error

If you want the report to include only alerts for errors that occurred on a specific day, add another filter expression for the date.

The following filter expression finds alerts on a specific day:

Table: Filter expression for finding alerts on a specific day

Filter type

Data

Field name

Date entered

Operator

=(Equal)

Value

02/03/06

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