Saved filters (or creating actions out of series)

[andrewm4894]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

No. Would be more of a ease of use improvement.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be nice to have a "Save Filter" button next to the "Add Filter" button in the "Events & Actions" screen. I typically want to go in and just look at the recent event stream for different subsets of my events and find myself having to manually create the filter each time which can be a bit annoying.

So there could then maybe be a "Saved Filters" teb menu item in the UI in that screen that i could just go to to apply the saved filter i want. Or maybe some better way to do it in terms of UI/UX.

Just feels like maybe some low hanging fruit.

Describe alternatives you've considered

It seems like the filter is stored in the url so i could just bookmark the different filters in my browser as a sort of work around.

Additional context

Not much else.

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[thedeveloperr]

This looks interesting and useful. Can I take this up?

[paolodamico]

+1 from a user today on Slack. Ability to save multiple filter conditions into a single reusable group (like we have on sessions page now).

[thedeveloperr]

How many saved filters can be there ? Will a JSONfield in user model enough ? Or we need a separate table ?

@mariusandra

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[andrewm4894]

i think should be kept open

[chenjefferson]

+1. I'll take a look at implementing this later tonight, maybe. Thanks.

Edit: forgot I needed to setup again. I'll take a look on Tuesday.

[thinklinux]

Hey @chenjefferson are you getting some progress on that one? I can take it if you don't have time right now :) Just to be sure that we are on the same page - we are talking about the "Event Explorer" page right? I assume it was "Events & Actions" some time ago?

[PandaGnar]

@thinklinux Hey! Don't have time right now and don't want to keep you waiting. Feel free to take it.

[thinklinux]

I dug I little bit around to get familiar with the code. As far as I can see there is a user that belongs in organisations that has different teams/projects. Couldn't find a good place to save the filters. I assume the filters should be saved per user per team. I don't know if anything else will make a lot of sense. We can save it in the user model with a JSON field that will be something like that

{team_id: {filters: [...]}}

but I'm not sure I want to pollute that one.

@mariusandra (or someone else) can I get a little bit of guidance here with the data modelling part. Is there a good place right now to put the filters and I didn't find it or there should be a new table with filters?

Thank you!

[Twixes]

Closely related: @camerondeleone mentioned a way to create an action out of a series would be useful. This could satisfy the use cases mentioned in this issue in a lot of cases (Actions effectively are saved filters, so by making sure they're intuitive, we might not need separate saved filters).