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Documentation for every part of your Sift experience.
Get started
All you need to get started and work with Sift.
- What is Sift?: Sift is a unified observability platform built for teams developing and operating complex hardware systems. Learn more.
- Sift's data model: Sift's data model provides a structured framework for organizing, evaluating, analyzing, and transforming time-series telemetry data. Learn more.
- Tutorial: Follow this step-by-step guide to get started with Sift’s UI, exploring data, creating rules, and building reports. Learn more.
UI
Everything you need to navigate and use the Sift UI effectively.
- Reference: Comprehensive technical reference for the Sift UI.
- How-to guides: Practical guides for solving specific tasks in the Sift UI.
APIs
Resources to help you integrate and work with the Sift APIs.
- Reference: Comprehensive technical reference for the Sift APIs.
- How-to guides: Practical guides for solving specific tasks in the Sift APIs.
Documentation structure
Learn how the documentation is organized across sections and content types.
- Diátaxis: The documentation is divided into two main sections: UI and API. Each section is organized around four content types following the Diátaxis framework, which includes Tutorials, How-to guides, Reference, and Explanations. Learn more.
Release notes
Stay up to date with the latest changes and improvements in Sift.
- Latest: July's release notes introduce foundational upgrades across the Sift workspace. Explore 2 (Beta) is now live, delivering a rebuilt exploration experience with sharper visuals, faster performance, and more flexible workflows. We’ve also rolled out protective rate limiting for high-volume data access and brought back flexible Channel search for faster navigation. Together, these updates give teams deeper visibility, more reliable performance, and a smoother path from raw data to answers. Learn more.
- Previous: June's release notes introduce new ways to bring data into Sift and view it across your tools. You can now send data from LabVIEW and FlexLogger directly to Sift. The Sift Grafana plugin is also now available in the public plugin catalog for easy installation. Sift's workspace (Explore) now supports a logarithmic Y-axis scale, making it easier to inspect signals that span multiple orders of magnitude. Learn more.
New features
Explore the latest features and enhancements available in Sift.
- Webhooks (Beta): Webhooks in Sift instantly send event-based notifications to your tools and systems. Learn more.
- Table Viewer (Beta): Table Viewer is a data view type in the Explore workspace. Learn more.
- Advanced Export: Advanced Export is a data export feature in the Explore workspace. Learn more.
Announcements
Catch up on important announcements and news from the Sift team.
- Manifesto: Ever wonder why Sift was created? It wasn’t to build more software; it was to fix the fragile infrastructure that slows down the teams building our most complex machines. We’ve published a manifesto that lays out what we’re building and why it matters. Download manifesto.
- Webinar recording: Traceability isn’t just a compliance checkbox anymore; it’s now mission-critical infrastructure. In our latest webinar, we break down how leading aerospace and defense teams are unifying hardware genealogy across build, test, and operations to move faster and reduce risk. Whether you missed the live session or want to revisit key insights, the full recording is now available here.
Tips
Helpful tips to get the most out of Sift.
- An Asset's naming convention: When naming an Asset in Sift, aim to make the name clear enough that anyone can understand three key things about the Asset just by looking at it: its type, a unique identifier, and a modifier that describes its environment or context. Learn more.
Popular
Explore the most popular Sift guides and docs.
- Expression syntax: Calculated Channels are defined by expressions written in Common Expression Language (CEL). These expressions describe how raw telemetry should be transformed, using logic that is evaluated on each incoming row of data. Learn more.
Blogs
Explore blogs from the Sift team on technical topics and industry insights.
- External Rules: Automate telemetry review in CI/CD workflows: “External Rules extend Sift's Rules framework by allowing engineers to define evaluation logic inline at runtime, using either the REST or gRPC API.” Read more.
- How Sift transforms hardware telemetry chaos into a trusted foundation for analysis: “Sift gives engineering teams a single foundation to work with hardware telemetry by delivering a [Single Source of Truth (SSOT)] and a [Single Pane of Glass (SPOG)].” Read more.