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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. 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."

Note: The security overview is currently in beta and subject to change.

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.

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 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 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."