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Filtering alerts in the security overview

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Use filters to view specific categories of alerts

Who can use this feature

Organization owners and security managers can access the organization-level security overview and view alerts across multiple organizations via the enterprise-level security overview. Enterprise owners can only view repositories and alerts for organizations where they are added as an organization owner or security manager. Members of a team can see the security overview for repositories that the team has admin privileges for.

The security overview for your organization is available if you have a license for GitHub Advanced Security. For more information, see "About GitHub Advanced Security."

About filtering the security overview

You can use filters in a security overview to narrow your focus based on a range of factors, like alert risk level, alert type, and feature enablement. Different filters are available depending on the specific view and whether you are viewing data at the enterpise or organization level.

Filter by repository

QualifierDescription
repo:REPOSITORY-NAMEDisplays data for the specified repository.

Filter by whether security features are enabled

In the examples below, replace :enabled with :not-enabled to see repositories where security features are not enabled. These qualifiers are available in the main summary views.

QualifierDescription
code-scanning:enabledDisplay repositories that have configured code scanning.
dependabot:enabledDisplay repositories that have enabled Dependabot alerts.
secret-scanning:enabledDisplay repositories that have enabled secret scanning alerts.
not-enabled:anyDisplay repositories with at least one security feature that is not enabled.

Filter by repository type

These qualifiers are available in the main summary views.

QualifierDescription
is:publicDisplay public repositories.
is:internalDisplay internal repositories.
is:privateDisplay private repositories.
archived:trueDisplay archived repositories.
archived:falseOmit archived repositories.

Filter by level of risk for repositories

The level of risk for a repository is determined by the number and severity of alerts from security features. If one or more security features are not enabled for a repository, the repository will have an unknown level of risk. If a repository has no risks that are detected by security features, the repository will have a clear level of risk.

QualifierDescription
risk:highDisplay repositories that are at high risk.
risk:mediumDisplay repositories that are at medium risk.
risk:lowDisplay repositories that are at low risk.
risk:unknownDisplay repositories that are at an unknown level of risk.
risk:clearDisplay repositories that have no detected level of risk.

Filter by number of alerts

These qualifiers are available in the main summary views.

QualifierDescription
code-scanning:NUMBERDisplay repositories that have NUMBER code scanning alerts. This qualifier can use =, > and < comparison operators.
secret-scanning:NUMBERDisplay repositories that have NUMBER secret scanning alerts. This qualifier can use =, > and < comparison operators.
dependabot:NUMBERDisplay repositories that have NUMBER Dependabot alerts. This qualifier can use =, > and < comparison operators.

Filter by team

These qualifiers are available in the main summary views.

QualifierDescription
team:TEAM-NAMEDisplays repositories that TEAM-NAME has admin access to.

Filter by topic

These qualifiers are available in the main summary views.

QualifierDescription
topic:TOPIC-NAMEDisplays repositories that are classified with TOPIC-NAME.

Additional filters for code scanning alert views

All code scanning alerts have one of the categories shown below. You can click any result to see full details of the relevant query and the line of code that triggered the alert.

QualifierDescription
severity:criticalDisplays code scanning alerts categorized as critical.
severity:highDisplays code scanning alerts categorized as high.
severity:mediumDisplays code scanning alerts categorized as medium.
severity:lowDisplays code scanning alerts categorized as low.
severity:errorDisplays code scanning alerts categorized as errors.
severity:warningDisplays code scanning alerts categorized as warnings.
severity:noteDisplays code scanning alerts categorized as notes.

Additional filters for secret scanning alert views

QualifierDescription
provider:PROVIDER_NAMEDisplays alerts for all secrets issues by the specified provider.
secret-type:SERVICE_PROVIDERDisplays alerts for the specified secret and provider.
secret-type:CUSTOM-PATTERNDisplays alerts for secrets matching the specified custom pattern.

For more information, see "Secret scanning patterns."