Use Reports Overview and Explore

Before you start

• Decide whether you need the built-in overview or a custom query.

Do this

1. Open Reports and choose the time window you want, such as 7, 30, or 90 days.
2. Use Overview for the built-in KPI cards, incident trends, alert metrics, team load, and retrospective signals.
3. Switch to Explore when you need a custom answer.
4. Use the query builder if you want guided dataset, metric, group-by, and filter controls.
5. Switch to OpsQL if you already know the query shape you want to write directly.
6. Run the query and review the table or chart output.
7. Save the query if you expect to run it again.

Check it worked

• The overview gives you the high-level story for the time window.
• Explore returns a query result you can reuse or add to a dashboard.
• Saved queries are easy to identify later.

If it does not work

• If the overview is enough, do not force a custom query.
• If the query is too broad, reduce the dataset or add one filter at a time.
• If OpsQL is returning confusing output, build the query first and then inspect the generated shape.

Next

• Build dashboards
• Track changes