Editing a query

To find and analyze the sessions that you need, you can narrow down your search by editing the session query. Further filtering enables you to localize your issue better. You can edit the query in the following ways:

• Using query parameters
• Editing the filter expression manually

To refine the query with specific parameters

1. On the Performance Analytics Query page of the BMC Application Performance Management Console, run a query.

2. Click the parameters that you want the next query to focus on.
   For example, you can select a city where the user is located or a browser that he or she uses.
   
   As shown in the following figure, when you click a parameter, the tooltip for the additional filter expression appears next to the Edit Filter button and an asterisk appears on the button to indicate that the filter has been changed.
   
   Query with additional filter

   

3. Click Restart.
   
   The system stops the previous query and starts a new query with the refined filter expressions.

To edit the query manually

1. On the Performance Analytics Query page of the APM Console, run a query.
2. Click Edit Filter.
   The text box appears and displays the current filter for the query.

3. Type the additional expressions for the filter.
   For example, you might want to specify the user location or the error code that the user received. For more information about creating filter expressions, see Working with filters.

   Note

   In the filter expression, the quotation marks (") enclosing the string parameters are mandatory.

4. Click Restart.

The system validates whether the filter expression is correct.

If the filter expression is not correct, then the system redirects you to the Expression Builder tool and keeps all the entered filter expressions. Edit the filter in the Expression Builder, and click Submit.

If the filter expression is correct, then the system stops the previous query and starts a new query with the refined filter expressions.

Where to go from here

To learn more about creating a focused query, see Query parameters. After you have refined your search, you can further analyze the individual sessions.