Drop filters (Private Preview)

Note

Private preview - Drop Filters are currently available to a limited number of customers. To join the preview, open a support ticket or contact your Observe account representative.

Drop Filters let you automatically discard noisy or irrelevant log lines before they count toward your ingest quota. Logs that match an active filter are never stored in Observe, so they:

  • cannot be searched,

  • do not trigger alerts,

  • never appear in dashboards, reports, or any other views.

Your monthly bill is calculated from Remaining observations, not the discarded Source observations.

Warning

You may filter out up to 50 % of your average daily ingest volume (measured without Drop Filters enabled).

Prerequisites

  1. You must be an Admin or belong to the Admin group.

  2. Drop filters can be attached only to source datasets or top‑level datasets (for example, Kubernetes Explorer / OpenTelemetry Logs).

  3. Drop Filters DO NOT apply to data ingested via filedrop or poller (e.g., Add Data for AWS,filedrop‑based AWS integrations, or pollers for AWS and GCP).

  4. Each source or top-level dataset can have up to five drop filters.

Create a drop filter

  1. Go to the Workspace settings page.

  2. Select Drop filters.

  3. Click New drop filter.

  4. Choose a targe dataset.

  5. Define one or more filter expressions that identify the noisy or irrelevant log lines you want to discard.

  6. Specify the drop rate (e.g., 100 %, 95 %).

  7. Click Save drop filter.

  8. Allow 1–2 minutes for the filter to become active.

Delete a drop filter

  1. Disable the filter.

  2. Click Delete to remove it permanently.