The global navigation
A left navigation, available from anywhere in Sift, lets you jump directly to other sections:- Explore: visualize and analyze telemetry
- Data sources: Runs, Assets, Families
- Review: Reports, Campaigns, Annotations
- Transform: Calculated Channels, User-Defined Functions
- Automate: Rules, Report Templates
Explore
Explore is Sift’s main workspace for visualizing and analyzing telemetry data. When you open a Run, it opens in Explore, where you can add Panels, plot Channels, run calculations, and compare behavior across tests. Explore is where most hands-on analysis happens. Use it to investigate signals, identify patterns, and build the evidence behind your findings.- Tutorial: Getting started with Explore
Data sources
Runs
The Runs section lists every time window of recorded telemetry in your workspace. Each Run represents a discrete session during which data was captured from an Asset (a test, a flight, an experiment, etc.). From the Runs list, you can browse and search for Runs by name or metadata, or open a Run to visualize it in Explore. Workflows:Assets
The Assets section shows the physical or virtual systems in your workspace that produce telemetry. An Asset groups together all the Runs, Annotations, User Groups, and Rules associated with a particular machine or system. Browse Assets to understand what data is available in your workspace and to find the Runs associated with a specific system. Workflows:- Organize streamed data into Assets and Runs
- Organize resources with Metadata
- Monitor ingestion health
Families
The Families section groups related Runs into a named baseline for comparison. Use a Family to compare new Runs against a historical spread in Explore, compute aggregate statistics such as mean and standard deviation across the group, and build Rules that flag when a new Run deviates from that statistical envelope. Workflows:- Group Runs into a Family
- Compare Runs visually against a Family baseline
- Detect statistical deviations using Family Rules
Review
Reports
Reports are structured summaries of how your Rules evaluated a Run. After a Rule runs against telemetry, you can generate a Report to capture what triggered, what the data showed, and what the current status is. Use Reports to communicate findings consistently across your team and to close the loop on issues you’ve identified. Workflows:- Detect and review issues in a Run
- Set up a repeatable review checklist
- Triage and close out flagged issues
Campaigns
The Campaigns section groups Reports from multiple Runs into a single workspace. Use a Campaign to track review progress across a test program and to filter Annotations across Runs by assignee, status, Asset, or Rule without opening each Report individually. Workflows:Annotations
An Annotation is a time range linked to data that records an observation, finding, or issue discovered during analysis, such as a Rule violation or a manually flagged moment. The Annotations section provides a workspace-level view of every Annotation across all Runs, with filters by status, assignee, Asset, Run, or Rule. Workflows:- Triage and close out flagged issues
- Detect and review issues in a Run
- Investigate a telemetry anomaly
Transform
Calculated Channels
The Calculated Channels section is where you create and manage derived signals: new metrics built from one or more existing Channels using expressions. Calculated Channels let you define a computation once and reuse it across analyses. Workflows:User-Defined Functions
A User-Defined Function is a reusable CEL expression that can be called by name inside the expressions of Calculated Channels, Rules, and other User-Defined Functions. Define logic once, such as a threshold calculation or a normalization formula, and reuse it consistently across your workspace. Workflows:Automate
Rules
The Rules section is where you create and manage the logical conditions that automatically evaluate your telemetry. A Rule watches for a specific pattern (a threshold breach, an anomaly, a state transition, etc.) and flags it when found. From the Rules section, you can create new Rules, preview them against existing Runs, and manage versions as your detection logic evolves. Workflows:- Detect deviations automatically using Rules
- Detect statistical deviations using Family Rules
- Get alerted when a limit is breached
Report Templates
A Report Template saves a named group of Rules so you can apply a consistent set of checks to every Run automatically. When generating a Report, select the template instead of individual Rules, and Sift evaluates every Rule in the template in one step. Workflows:The Manage section
Select your profile icon, then select Manage to reach this section. The Manage section covers workspace administration: API keys for programmatic access to Sift, Access control for who can see and interact with data, Metadata definitions for organizing and filtering Runs and Assets, and Webhooks for outbound notifications on Rule events. The Manage section is primarily used by workspace administrators and is separate from the day-to-day analysis workflow. Workflows:- Set up API access
- Get alerted when a limit is breached
- Organize resources with Metadata
- Recover failed ingestion data
- Connect an Identity Provider (IdP)
- Manage user access
- Set up attribute-based access policies