Grouping & filtering
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Once you have installed the Appear agent and it is connected (reporting) you will see your instance of the Appear platform begin to instantly populate with your services, resources, and references.
You may wish to organise your services to be more meaningfully arranged based on your role, their association to a project, a team, or anything in between. This can be done with grouping and filtering.
Organising services is handled with tags. This allows greater flexibility for all personas using your APIs. The only prerequisite to using tags is that you have a service present in your Catalog view.
Tags are a free-form way to add extra dimensions to your services. These are added from the services detail column; accessed by clicking on an individual service in the Catalog view.
Now that you have one (or many tags) in your Appear account, you can begin grouping services present in your service list by one or many tags.
Grouping services is limited to your account, and is designed to be a flexible and fluid way to arrange what you care about in the moment. It is simple to ungroup your services, which doesn't delete any of the underlying relationships (handled via tags).
Click on the 'x' next to the grouping tag visible on the services list column
Click on the selected tags in the grouping menu, this will deslect them
Click on Deselect All within the grouping menu in the Tags submenu
The grouping functionality has some basic behaviours which are nice to be aware of as you navigate the Appear platform.
Selecting or deselecting groups persists across different environments or branches
A single service can be assigned to multiple tags, and therefore multiple groups, which means it will be present in those groups
Selecting a services present in multiple groups will show it selected multiple times in the service list view
Next to the grouping button icon there is the filter button icon. Clicking this will open a similar menu to the grouping menu, however offers another layer of how to arrange what is relevant to you in the moment.
Filtering works independently or in combination with grouping, allowing you to fine-tune your view. You can filter services by:
Tags
Connection status (Active, Stale, Lost, Waiting to connect, No Connection)
This makes it easy to focus on a subset of services — whether you’re troubleshooting, reviewing deployments, or exploring a specific part of your system.
If you have any queries or require support with the above instructions, please with us.