Resource Explorer
Resource Explorer is the main browser for everything StratoLens has discovered in your Azure tenant. Browse subscriptions, resource groups, and resources at any point in time covered by your scan history, and drill into any resource for tags, RBAC, security findings, recommendations, policy compliance, cost, and a complete change timeline.
What You'll Learn
This documentation covers everything you can do from the Explorer page:
- Navigate the column view and switch between four grouping modes
- Filter resources by name, type, location, tags, and direct RBAC assignments
- Inspect a resource's key information, properties, and related insights
- Travel back in time with the Snapshot Picker
- Walk through every change a single resource has gone through
Key Capabilities
One Place For Your Whole Estate
See your entire Azure footprint across subscriptions, regions, and resource types in a single page. Switch between four grouping modes to match the question you're answering.
Time Travel Across Snapshots
Load any past scan as a snapshot and see what your tenant looked like last Tuesday, last quarter, or before a specific change went out.
Targeted Filtering
Narrow the view by name, type, location, tags, or to just resources with direct RBAC assignments. Combine tag rules with AND or OR.
All Resource Context On One Pane
Click a resource to see its key information, properties, tags, and child resources. Open related modals for activity, changes, RBAC, cost, security, advisor, and policy.
Full Change Timeline Per Resource
Step through every scan a resource appears in to see when properties changed, when tags moved, when RBAC was added, and when the resource was created or deleted.
Related Features
- Automated Scanning — every snapshot in Explorer comes from a completed scan.
- Change Tracking — for side-by-side comparison of two snapshots, use the Changes feature instead of flipping the picker.
- Management Groups Visualization — the Management Groups button in the Explorer header opens this view.
Documentation Sections
Start with the Overview if you're new to Explorer. Otherwise, jump straight to the area you need.
Resource Explorer Overview
The page layout, the four view modes, and what loads by default.
Read: Resource Explorer Overview →Filtering Resources
Narrow large estates down by name, type, location, tags, or direct RBAC.
Read: Filtering Resources →Resource Detail View
Key information, properties, tags, child resources, and the related modals (activity, changes, RBAC, cost, security, advisor, policy).
Read: Resource Detail View →Historical Snapshots
Use the Snapshot Picker to load any past scan and browse your tenant as it was at that point in time.
Read: Historical Snapshots →Resource History
Walk a single resource's timeline. See when properties changed, tags moved, RBAC was added, and the resource was created or deleted.
Read: Resource History →Want to learn more about what Resource Explorer can do?
Check out the feature page for benefits, use cases, and highlights.
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