> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.siftstack.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Analyze a Run

> Open a Run in Explore, plot Channels, and build a multi-Panel workspace to analyze telemetry.

After completing this topic, you can visualize and explore telemetry from a single Run to understand signal behavior over time.

## Before you begin

* You have a Run with ingested telemetry data.
* You know which Channels you want to investigate.

## How Run analysis works

A Run represents a defined time window of telemetry captured from an Asset. To analyze a Run, you open it in [Explore](/documentation/reference/explore-settings) and plot Channels across Panels to visualize signal behavior over time. Explore supports multiple [Panel types](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#panel-types), each suited to a different kind of analysis. For enum and boolean channels, use the [Enum Panel](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#panel-types) to visualize discrete states as a color-coded timeline.

You can arrange multiple Panels side by side and save your layout as a [Panel Configuration](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#panel-configurations) for reuse across future Runs.

<Tip>
  **Phase Annotation**: If a Run spans multiple tests or sub-events, mark the start and end of each one with a [Phase Annotation](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#annotations). Phase Annotations let you correlate telemetry to a specific test without creating a separate Run for each one, and you can use them as alignment points when comparing the same test across Runs.
</Tip>

## Open and analyze a Run

1. In **Sift's** homepage, enter the Run name in the **Search** box.
2. In the **Runs** table, click the **Run** you want to analyze.
3. Click <Icon icon="arrow-up-right-from-square" /> **Explore**.
4. Select a [Panel type](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#panel-types) to add to the workspace.
5. In the <Icon icon="wave-pulse" /> **Channels** tab, click or drag a Channel onto the Panel to plot it.
   * To plot multiple Channels at once, hold **Shift** and click to select a range, or hold **Cmd** (Mac) / **Ctrl** (Windows, Linux) and click to add or remove individual Channels. Drag any selected Channel to plot the entire selection, or right-click any selected Channel to apply a context menu action to all selected Channels.
6. Optional: To change how Channel data is downsampled, open the <Icon icon="gear" /> Panel settings, click the **Channel** tab, locate the Channel, click <Icon icon="angle-right" /> **Expand**, and select a method from the **Sampling method** list.
   * See [Downsampling](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#downsampling) for available methods.
7. Optional: To compare signals side by side, [split](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#layout) a Panel by right-clicking its tab and selecting a split direction.
   * The split duplicates the Panel in the selected direction and creates an independent Panel that can be configured separately.
   * Alternatively, click <Icon icon="plus" /> to add a new Panel from scratch.
8. Optional: Use [range controls](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#range-controls) to zoom into a time range and focus on a specific event or anomaly.
9. Optional: To create a new Run or Metrics Panel from a specific X-axis range in a Time Series Panel, click <Icon icon="square-dashed-circle-plus" /> **Select X** in the toolbar, click and drag over the desired range, right-click the selection, and select <Icon icon="plus" /> **Create Run** or <Icon icon="tally" /> **Create Metrics Panel**.
   * See [Run from selection](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#run-from-selection) and [Metrics Panel from selection](/documentation/reference/explore-settings#metrics-panel-from-selection) for details.

## Reference

* [Explore settings](/documentation/reference/explore-settings)