Resource Explorer Overview

Resource Explorer is the main browser for everything StratoLens has discovered in your Azure tenant. Open it from the main navigation. The page lets you switch how resources are grouped, jump to any past snapshot, filter the view, and drill into a single resource for full details.

Page Layout

The page is built around three areas: a header with snapshot and filter controls, a view-mode tab strip that switches how resources are grouped, and the main browse area on the left with a detail panel that slides in on the right when you select a resource.

Header controls

Management Groups: Opens the management-group hierarchy in a modal. Useful only if your tenant uses management groups.
Filter button: Reads Add Filters when nothing is active, and Edit Filters with a count badge plus a Clear button when filters are applied. See Filtering Resources.
Viewing picker: Calendar-icon button on the right of the header. Click to load any past scan as a snapshot. See Historical Snapshots.
Detail panel: Slides in from the right when you select a resource, subscription, resource group, or management group. See Resource Detail View.

Explorer is point-in-time

Resource Explorer always shows the state of your tenant at the time a scan ran. It is not a live view of Azure. For real-time data, use the Azure Portal — every detail panel includes an Open in Azure Portal button.

View Modes

The view-mode tab strip below the header has four options. All four show the same underlying resources from the selected snapshot, just grouped differently. Pick the one that matches the question you're answering.

Group by Subscription: Default. Three side-by-side columns: Subscriptions, Resource Groups, Resources. Click left-to-right to drill in.
Group by Resource Type: Resources grouped by Azure type. Best for "how many VMs do we have?" or "list every storage account".
Group by Region: Resources grouped by Azure region. Best for "what's in eastus?" or compliance reviews tied to a region.
Group by Region and RG: Region first, then resource group within each region. Useful when an environment is split across regions.

Tip

Switching views attempts to keep your selected resource highlighted by re-mapping it into the new grouping. This makes it easy to see the same resource "by region" one moment and "by type" the next.

Defaults

How the page loads on a fresh visit, and how it behaves when other StratoLens pages link into it.

Snapshot: Most recent successful scan (Latest Snapshot). Auto-updates when a new scan completes — unless you've explicitly picked a historical snapshot, in which case your selection is preserved.
View mode: Group by Subscription, columns starting collapsed.
Filters: None applied.
Deep links: URLs from dashboards, the Changes page, and history views carry the snapshot, view, and resource to expand to. Sharing a URL with a teammate preserves the snapshot.

Switching snapshots clears filters

If you want to compare the same filtered set across two snapshots, re-apply your filters after switching. To compare two snapshots side-by-side, use the Change Tracking feature instead.

Prerequisites

Permission: Your StratoLens role must include read access to resource data. Without it, the page shows a permission-required message instead of the Explorer.
Scan data: At least one completed scan must exist. On a fresh install, the page shows an empty state with a Run First Scan button that takes you to the scan management page.

Troubleshooting

My new resource isn't showing up

Answer

Explorer shows what was discovered in the selected snapshot. If the resource was created after that scan ran, switch to Latest Snapshot in the Viewing picker, or trigger a new scan from the scans page.

I see N/A for tags, location, or resource group on a row