--- title: "Saved Views" slug: "saved-views" description: "Learn about Saved Views in the Kentik Library, how to create, manage, and share them for effective traffic analysis and visualization." updated: 2025-08-04T20:27:38Z published: 2025-08-04T20:27:38Z --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://kb.kentik.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Saved Views This article covers Saved Views in the **Library** section of the Kentik portal. *![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/082e25b5-afce-42d4-8f47-70bd3f1d02b7/Images/Documentation/image(343).png)* *An example of a saved view page.* ## About Saved Views A saved view is a look at traffic using a saved collection of query settings in the sidebar (see [**Query Sidebar Controls**](/v1/docs/query-settings-overview#query-sidebar-controls)). Saved views may be created from the following locations: - **Data Explorer**: Choose **Create Saved View** from the **Actions** menu (see [**Create Saved View**](/v1/docs/data-explorer#create-saved-view)). The view will represent the state of Data Explorer at the time that view is saved. - **Library**: Choose **Saved View** from the drop-down **Add New** button. The view will initially represent the default state of a new instance of Data Explorer. Use the controls of the **Query** sidebar to tailor the settings for the new view. Either of the above actions will open the Add Saved View dialog, where you'll set the properties of the view (see [**Saved View Properties**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-properties)), then click **Save** to create the new view. Once created, saved views are accessed and managed via the [**Library**](/v1/docs/library) (choose **Library** from the main portal menu), where they can either be viewed and shared directly, or added as panels to dashboards. #### Saved View Visibility Saved View visibility determines which users have access to a given saved view: - **Private**: Views that you save only for your own personal use. No one else has access. > [!NOTE] > **Note:** In the Library, Private saved views are indicated with an eye icon in the Sharing column of the Library list (see [**Library List Columns**](/v1/docs/library#library-list-columns)). - **Shared**: Views saved by any user in your organization. All users in your organization have access. ## Saved View Page A saved view is accessed by clicking the view's name in its row of the [**Library List**](/v1/docs/library#library-list). ### Saved View Layout The layout of a saved view page is effectively the same as a page in Data Explorer, with the following main areas (including differences as noted): - **Subnav controls**: Page-wide controls in the subnav (see [**Saved View Subnav Controls**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-subnav-controls)). > [!NOTE] > **Note:** The options on the **Actions** menu are specific to saved views (see [**Saved View Actions**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-actions)). - **Title bar**: An area just below the subnav with the name of the saved view and various other information (see [**Saved View Title Bar**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-title-bar)) - **Main display**: An area for display of query results, which in most cases is made up of a visualization (see [**Data Explorer Chart**](/v1/docs/data-explorer#data-explorer-chart)) and an accompanying table (see [**Data Explorer Table**](/v1/docs/data-explorer#data-explorer-table)). > [!NOTE] > **Note:** On a saved view page, a **Favorite** icon appears to the left of the view's title, enabling you to add the view to the Library's [**Favorites Tab**](/v1/docs/library#favorites-tab). - **Query sidebar**: A right-side sidebar that opens from the **Query** button in the subnav and contains the settings used to define the view's properties (see [**Saved View Properties**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-properties)) and query (see [**Query Sidebar Controls**](/v1/docs/query-settings-overview#query-sidebar-controls)). ### Saved View Subnav Controls The subnav (silver strip across top of page) contains the following page-wide controls: - **Refresh**: A button that updates the charts and tables in the dashboard's panels. - **Auto Update** (down-pointing triangle icon): A drop-down menu from which you can set auto-update to *Off*(default) or select an interval at which the charts and tables will automatically update: - When auto-update is on, the interval (60, 90, or 120 seconds) will be displayed in the subnav to the left of the down-pointing triangle. - When auto-update is set to Off, the down-pointing triangle will be displayed alone (no auto-update indicator). > [!NOTE] > **Note:** The countdown to refresh starts over each time you apply changes and the new result is returned in the display area. - **Share**: A button that opens the **Share** dialog to enable you to share the current dashboard (see [**Sharing via the Share Dialog**](/v1/docs/portal-sharing-and-export#sharing-via-the-share-dialog)). - **Actions**: A drop-down with the options covered in [**Saved View Actions**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-actions). - **Open**: A button that toggles visibility of the right-side [**Saved Views Sidebar**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-views-sidebar), which enables you to link directly to other saved views in your organization. - **Query**: A button that toggles visibility of the right-side Query sidebar, which contains the settings used to define the view's properties (see [**Saved View Pane Properties**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-pane-properties)) and specify its query (see [**Query Sidebar Controls**](/v1/docs/query-settings-overview#query-sidebar-controls)). ### Saved View Title Bar The title bar in Data Explorer includes the following information: - **Favorite** (star icon): An icon indicating whether the saved view is favorited. Click the icon to add or remove the designation as a favorite. - **Title**: The title of the graph returned from the query specified with the [**Query Sidebar Controls**](/v1/docs/query-settings-overview#query-sidebar-controls). - **Trending** (flame icon): An indicator that the dashboard/saved view is trending (among the top 10 most-visited dashboards or saved views over the last month). - **Description**: A description of the saved view, if any was added at creation or during editing. - **Labels**: The labels, if any, currently applied to the saved view. > [!NOTE] > **Note:** Below the above elements, the title bar also includes the **Time range**, **Data sources**, and **Filters** indicators, as well as the **Cause Analysis** button. These elements are the same as those described in [**Explorer Title Bar**](/v1/docs/data-explorer#explorer-title-bar). ### Saved View Actions The **Actions** menu on an individual saved view page is nearly but not exactly the same as the context menu in a saved view row in the **Library** list. The menu includes the following options: - **Export**: Opens a submenu from which you can choose among various forms in which the saved view can exported (see [**Portal Export Options**](/v1/docs/portal-sharing-and-export#portal-export-options)). - **Subscribe**: Opens the Subscribe dialog enabling you to create a subscription for this saved view. The form in the Subscription dialog is the same as on the Subscription tab of the Share dialog, which is covered in [**Subscription Tab UI**](/v1/docs/portal-sharing-and-export#subscription-tab-ui). - **Unsubscribe**: If you’re subscribed to this saved view, this option opens a dialog enabling you to confirm that you wish to be removed from the subscription. - **Add to Observation Deck**: Add the view to your [**Observation Deck**](/v1/docs/observation-deck). - **Add To New Dashboard**: Opens the Add Dashboard dialog (see [**Dashboard Dialogs**](/v1/docs/dashboard-configuration#dashboard-dialogs)), enabling you to create a new dashboard to which you can add this saved view as a panel. > [!NOTE] > **Note**: A dashboard panel created from a saved view is completely independent of that saved view, and modifications to one will have no effect on the other. - **Add To Existing Dashboard**: Opens the [**Add Data Explorer View Panel**](/v1/docs/dashboard-configuration#add-data-explorer-view-panel) dialog, where you can specify the dashboard to which this saved view will be added as a panel. > [!NOTE] > **Note**: A dashboard panel created from a saved view is completely independent of that saved view, and modifications to one will have no effect on the other. - **Preview as Tenant** (only present in accounts that use My Kentik Portal): Opens a submenu from which you can choose an MKP tenant, after which you'll be taken to the saved view as it would appear to that tenant. - **Show API Call**: Provides access to a set of dialogs that contain code (cURL or JSON) that can be used to return the current view (content of the display area) from the Kentik Query API. See [**Show API Call**](/v1/docs/data-explorer#show-api-call). - **Remove**: Opens a confirmation popup that enables you to remove the saved view from your organization. ## Saved Views Sidebar ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/082e25b5-afce-42d4-8f47-70bd3f1d02b7/Images/Documentation/image(348).png) The **Saved Views** sidebar allows you to directly browse, search, and find other saved views without going back to the [**Library**](/v1/docs/library) page. The sidebar includes filter controls, tabs, and a list of your organization's saved views (see [**Saved Views Sidebar List**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-views-sidebar-list)), which you can expand/collapse by clicking the hamburger icon at its top right corner. When your browser width is less than 1760 pixels the sidebar displays as a drawer. The following supported keyboard shortcuts are listed at the bottom of the sidebar: **Close**: Use the esc key to close the sidebar. **Switch tabs**: Use the left/right arrow keys to toggle between the **Favorites**, **Recents**, and **Browser** tabs. **Select results**: Use the up/down arrow keys to select the previous/next saved view in the list. ### Saved Views Sidebar Filters The following controls are used to filter the **Saved Views** list: - **Search**: A field that filters the **Saved Views** list to saved views whose title matches the entered text. - **Label**: A filterable drop-down from which you can select one or more labels. The **Saved Views** list will be filtered to saved views with the selected labels. - **Privacy**: A drop-down in which checkboxes will include/exclude saved views from the**Saved Views** list based on their sharing setting (if none are checked then no sharing settings are excluded): - Shared: Saved Views that you or others in your organization have designated for use by everyone in the organization. - Private: Saved Views that you own and have designated for your own exclusive use (no one else has access). - Kentik Preset: Saved Views created by Kentik. - **Owner**: A filterable drop-down in which checkboxes will include/exclude owners from the **Saved Views** list (if none are checked then no owners are excluded). - **Reset To Default**: A link that clears any filters set by the above controls. - **Sort**: A drop-down to select the sorting criteria for the**Saved Views** list: Relevance, Name, Created Date, or Last Updated. ### Saved Views Sidebar Tabs The following tabs determine which subset of saved views is displayed on the **Saved Views** list: - **Favorites**: A tab to display saved views marked as favorites, with a numerical count of the search results for tab. - **Recents**: A tab to display most recently viewed saved views, with a numerical count of the search results for the tab. - **Browser** (default): A tab to display all saved views you have access to, with a numerical count of the search results for the tab. ### Saved Views Sidebar List The **Saved Views** list contains expandable rows, each representing one saved view, that contain the following elements: - **Favorite** (star icon): An icon indicating whether the saved view is favorited. Select the icon to add or remove the saved view from Favorites. - **Name**: A link to the saved view. - **Labels**: A list of labels applied to the saved view. - **Description** (when row is expanded): The optional description of the saved view. - **Owner** (when row is expanded): The user who created the saved view. - **Expand/Collapse**: Toggles between expanded and compact view. ## Saved View Query Sidebar For saved views the **Query** sidebar includes two distinct sets of controls: - **Saved view properties**: The **Saved View** pane of the sidebar contains a set of controls and editable fields for the properties of the saved view (see [**Saved View Pane Properties**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-pane-properties)). > [!NOTE] > **Note:** This pane is not present for saved views that are [**Kentik Presets**](/v1/docs/library#kentik-presets). - **Query settings**: The controls used to specify the query whose results are returned in the display area. These query settings are detailed in [**Query Sidebar Controls**](/v1/docs/query-settings-overview#query-sidebar-controls). #### Saved View Pane Properties The following controls in the**Saved View** pane of the **Query** sidebar may be used to edit view properties: - ![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/082e25b5-afce-42d4-8f47-70bd3f1d02b7/Images/Documentation/image(352).png)**Name**: A field for the name that will represent this saved view in the title and the [**Library List**](/v1/docs/library#library-list). - **Description**: An optional field for the description of the saved view. - **Labels**: An optional set of controls to add and apply labels to the saved view (see [**Labels Controls**](/v1/docs/dashboard-configuration#labels-controls)). - **Visibility**: A set of radio buttons to set the [**Saved View Visibility**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-visibility). - **Save**: A button that saves changes to the saved view properties. - **Save As**: A button (down-arrow at right of **Save** button) that opens the Create Saved View dialog (see [**About Saved View Dialogs**](/v1/docs/saved-views#about-saved-view-dialogs)) so you can save the current settings of the saved view as a new view. - **Revert**: A button that restores all properties to their values before any changes. ## Saved View Dialogs The properties of saved views are managed in settings dialogs: - **Add Saved View**: A dialog used to define the properties of a new saved view. This dialog is opened when you first create a saved view (see [**Create a View**](/v1/docs/saved-views#create-a-view)). - **Create Saved View**: A dialog used to define the properties of a view that you're saving as a variant of an existing view. This dialog is opened when you choose**Save As** in the **Saved View** pane of the**Query** sidebar (see [**Saved View Properties**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-properties)). - **Edit Saved View**: A dialog used to modify the properties of an existing saved view. The dialog opens from the **Edit Properties** option on the [**Library Action Menu**](/v1/docs/library#library-action-menu). > [!NOTE] > **Note:**Properties are not editable for saved views that are [**Kentik Presets**](/v1/docs/library#kentik-presets), but presets may be cloned and edits made to the resulting copy. ### Saved View Dialogs UI The property settings dialogs for saved views share the same layout and the following common UI elements: - ![Editing a saved view with name, description, labels, and visibility options.](https://cdn.us.document360.io/082e25b5-afce-42d4-8f47-70bd3f1d02b7/Images/Documentation/SV-edit-saved-view-dialog.png)**Information**(Add Saved View dialog only): An information pane that provides a brief description of a saved view. - **Name**: A field for the name that will represent this saved view in the [**Library List**](/v1/docs/library#library-list). - **Description**: An optional field for the description of the saved view. - **Labels**: An optional set of controls to add and apply labels to the saved view (see [**Labels Controls**](/v1/docs/dashboard-configuration#labels-controls)). - **Visibility**: A set of radio buttons to set the [**Saved View Visibility**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-visibility). - **Add Saved View** (Add Saved View dialog only): A button that creates the new saved view and exits the dialog. - **Save**(Edit Saved View dialog only): A button that saves changes to the existing saved view and exits the dialog. - **Cancel**: A control — either the **X** at the upper right or the **Cancel** button at the lower right — that exits the dialog while leaving all settings as they were when it was opened. ### Saved View Properties The properties of a saved view are set with the fields and controls of the Add Saved View dialog when a view is first created (see [**Create a View**](/v1/docs/saved-views#create-a-view)), and may be subsequently changed in the Edit Saved View dialog (see [**Edit a View**](/v1/docs/saved-views#edit-a-view)). The properties are described in the following table: | Field | Type | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | Name | Field | Required: A user-specified descriptive name for the view. | | Description | Field | Optional: Any text added by the user to explain the characteristics and utility of the view. **Note**: The more informative your description is, the easier it will be for team members to determine how the view might be useful. | | Labels | Drop-down menu | Optional: Choose an existing label to be applied to the view in the Library, or create a new label to which the view should be assigned (see [**New Label Dialog**](/v1/docs/dashboard-configuration#new-label-dialog)). | | Visibility | Radio buttons | Required: One of the following, which determines who has access to the view: - Private: view will be available only to you. - Shared: view will be available company wide. | > [!NOTE] > **Note:** Saved view properties can also be set and edited in the **Saved View** pane at the top of the **Query** sidebar on a saved view page (see [**Saved View Properties**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-properties)). ## Manage Saved Views The management of Saved Views is covered in the following topics. ### Create a View A view can be saved directly from Data Explorer (see [**Create Saved View**](/v1/docs/data-explorer#create-saved-view)), or a "blank" view can be created with the **Add New**button in the **Library** (see [**Library Page**](/v1/docs/library#library-page)) and configured later. To create a saved view: 1. Start in either Data Explorer or the Library: 1. In Data Explorer, choose**Create Saved View** from the **Actions** menu in the subnav. 2. In the Library, choose **Saved View** from the drop-down menu on the **Add New** button. 2. In the resulting Add Saved View dialog, specify the properties of the view (name, description, etc.) in the fields described in [**Saved View Properties**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-properties). 3. Click the**Add Saved View** button to save the view and return to where you started (Data Explorer or Library). A notice will appear indicating that the view has been saved. If you're in Data Explorer, the title bar of the graph will now include a “Saved View” label. ### Load a View A saved view is displayed on an individual saved view page within the Library. To open a saved view page, click on the view's name in its row in the [**Library List**](/v1/docs/library#library-list). ### Edit a View Either a view itself (e.g. query settings in the sidebar) or the properties of that view (e.g., description) can be edited. #### Edit View Properties To edit a saved view’s properties (name, description, or sharing settings): 1. In the Library, click the **Action** menu (vertical ellipsis) at the right of the view's row in the [**Library List**](/v1/docs/library#library-list), then choose**Edit Properties** from the menu. 2. In the resulting****Edit Saved View dialog, edit the properties of the view (see [**Saved View Properties**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-properties)). 3. Click the **Save** button to save the edited properties and return to the Library. A notification will confirm that the edited properties were saved. #### Edit View Query To edit a view’s query and display settings: 1. In the Library, find the card for a saved view in a views list, then click on the name of the saved view, which will take you to the page for that view. 2. In the subnav, click the **Options** button, which will open the right sidebar and enable you to change the saved view's query settings, including view type, data sources, dimensions, filtering, etc. (see [**Query Sidebar Controls**](/v1/docs/query-settings-overview#query-sidebar-controls)). 3. Once you've made changes, you have three options: - *Save*: To keep the changes to this saved view, click the **Save** button. A popup notification will confirm that the changes have been saved. - *Save as*: To keep this saved view as it was when opened but save the current (changed) settings to a new saved view, click the down-triangle on the **Save** button and choose **Save as**. A****Create Saved View dialog will open, enabling you to specify [**Saved View Properties**](/v1/docs/saved-views#saved-view-properties). When you click **Save** in the dialog you'll be taken to the newly created saved view. - *Revert*: If you don't want to save your changes at all, click the **Revert** button. All settings will revert to the values they had when the saved view was last saved. --- © 2014-25 Kentik