How to filter & query data

The Observer offers extensive filtering options to refine your search.

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Note

All times and dates displayed in the Observer are in UTC.

Filter sections

There are 5 different filters type:

  • The Product filter: it's where you will choose what products' data to analyze
  • The Data filter: this is the main filter, where you can filter on any piece of data, more details below.
  • The Time filter: filter on dates and times
  • The Label filter: search and find your label (refer to this guide for help)
  • The Team filter: if you are a part of a team with adequate permissions, or a Team Administrator, here you can filter results by Team Member, to call up only results from requests initiated by a specific team member

Data filtering

Depending on the product selected in the Product Filter, the Data filter options made available will be different.

Here are some examples of available filters/column:

  • Email -> domain value
  • Email -> deliverability status
  • Number of profiles found
  • Risk level
  • Number of profiles found (filter on how many profiles were found)
  • Google -> gender value (search for only male or female Google profiles)
  • Facebook -> registered state (filter on the registration state on Facebook)
  • Skype -> has a picture (only search for phone numbers or email addresses with a Skype picture)
  • WhatsApp -> is a business (only search for phone numbers linked to a WhatsApp Business account)
  • ...

More than 200 unique filtering options are available, and multiple filters can be applied to a single search.

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Example of data filtering #1

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Example of data filtering #2

Save and re-use your filters

Building the exact filters you need can be time-consuming. For this reason,the Observer makes saving and reusing your filter configuration easy.

Saved filters can be found in the My filters tab, along with their name.

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Note

You can also easily edit your labels from the Observer. See the Label guide