Resource Detail View
Click any resource, subscription, resource group, or management group in Explorer to open the detail panel on the right. The panel shows key information, tags, full properties, and a row of buttons that open related modals — activity, changes, RBAC, cost, security, advisor, and policy.
Detail data is point-in-time
Everything in the detail panel comes from the selected snapshot, not real-time Azure state. Click Open in Azure Portal in the panel header to jump to the live resource in a new tab.
Key Information
The top of the panel is a key/value list with the resource's name, type, location, resource group, subscription, and tags. The exact field set varies by entity type — subscriptions, for example, show Subscription ID, Tenant ID, State, Spending Limit, and Authorization Source instead of resource-group fields.
Tags appear as a comma-separated list of key:value badges. N/A means the resource has no tags.
Properties
The Properties section is a collapsible table of every property StratoLens captured for this resource on this scan. Two header columns: Property Name and Value.
- Hide empty
- Hides rows where the value is empty. On by default.
- Wrap all
- Wraps long values instead of truncating. Off by default.
- Raw Data toggle
- In the panel header, click Raw Data to see the entire resource object as JSON. Click Formatted View to switch back.
Tip
Click Raw Data when you're triaging an unfamiliar resource type. The full JSON often surfaces fields the formatted view tucks away.
Actions Row
Inside Key Information, the Actionsrow holds buttons that open per-resource modals. A button only appears if the data exists for this resource and your role has the matching read permission. Buttons aren't greyed out — they're hidden entirely.
- Activity
- Opens the Activity Log modal showing recent control-plane operations against this resource. View All Activity in Activity Explorer at the bottom for the full list.
- Changes
- Opens the Changes modal with Azure's change history for this resource. View in Change Tracking for the full list.
- RBAC
- Opens the role-assignments dialog showing who has what role assigned directly on this resource.
- Cost
- Opens the Cost modal with month-to-date, daily average, previous month, and the resource's cost trend. Subscriptions and resource groups show aggregated costs; resources show their own.
- Security
- Opens the Security Assessments modal with the top 5 unhealthy assessments, sorted Critical → High → Medium → Low. View All in Security for the full list.
- Advisor
- Opens the Advisor modal with the top 5 high-impact recommendations. View All in Advisor for the full list.
- Policy Assignments
- Opens the policy-assignments modal with the top 5 assignments at this entity's scope (initiatives first). View All in Policy Assignments for the full list.
- Policy Compliance
- Opens the policy-compliance modal with the top 5 evaluations, Non-Compliant first. Pill toggle to switch between Non-Compliant and All. View All in Policy Compliance for the full list.
Top-5 caps are intentional
Security, Advisor, Policy Assignments, and Policy Compliance modals are pre-loaded with the resource — they open instantly but only show the top 5 items. Use the View All button in each modal to drill into the full list on the corresponding StratoLens page.
Child Resources
For resources that have children (such as a VM with extensions or a SQL server with databases), an expandable Child Resources section appears at the bottom of the panel with the count in parentheses. Clicking a child opens its own detail panel.
Note
Children are any Azure resource whose ID nests under this one. Some resource types have many small auto-managed children — that's normal.
Permissions
Each Actions-row button is gated by its own read permission. If your StratoLens role doesn't include the matching permission, the button is hidden:
- Activity
- Activity log read access.
- Changes
- Change tracking read access.
- Cost
- Cost data read access.
- Security
- Defender for Cloud read access.
- Advisor
- Azure Advisor read access.
- Policy
- Azure Policy read access (gates both Policy Assignments and Policy Compliance).
- RBAC
- The same resource-data read permission that gates Explorer itself.
Troubleshooting
The Security button isn't showing for this resource
Answer
Three possible reasons: your role doesn't include Defender read access, Defender for Cloud has no unhealthy assessments for this resource, or Defender data hasn't been collected yet for the selected snapshot.
The Properties section is empty or sparse
Answer
Look for the Limited details available banner between Key Information and Properties. If it's there, the scanner couldn't retrieve the full property bag for this resource on this scan. This is usually transient or permission-related and clears up on the next successful scan.
I selected a resource and got "Resource Not Found in This Scan"
Answer
The URL or deep link points to a resource that didn't exist in the selected snapshot. It may have been created after this scan was taken or deleted before it. Switch snapshots from the Viewing picker, or use a more recent snapshot.