Drill down

Drill down lets you start from a number that caught your eye and go deeper into it — one click on a chart point opens a small menu of next steps. Each step keeps the focus on the value you clicked, so you can investigate without disturbing the surrounding tiles.

This is different from cross-filtering. Drilling opens a focused breakdown of one value; cross-filtering applies that value as a filter to every tile on the dashboard. Both start from the same click menu — this page covers the drill actions, and Cross-filtering covers the dashboard-wide filter.

Overview

When you click a data point on a Mosaic tile, Celiq does not filter anything implicitly. Instead it opens an inline interaction menu at the click point. The menu lists, in order:

• Filter dashboard by this value — the cross-filter action (covered on its own page).
• Drill into… — a list of dimensions you can break the clicked value down by.
• View rows — the underlying, filtered records.
• Explain with Orion — an AI decomposition of the clicked value.

Choosing any of the drill actions opens the Drill modal: a focused panel with a sidebar of drill options on the left and the result on the right. The modal header shows the tile title and the exact context you clicked, for example channel = Organic Search.

When to use it

• A single bar, point, or slice is much higher or lower than the rest and you want to know which sub-segment drove it.
• You need to see the actual rows behind an aggregated number before you trust it.
• You want a fast, plain-language read on what is notable about a value and what to look at next.
• You are exploring in Discover and want to pivot a result by a related dimension without rebuilding the query.

Reach for Cross-filtering instead when you want the whole dashboard to react to the value you clicked.

Concepts

Getting started

You need access to a Mosaic (or to Discover) and at least Tracer-level permission. Open the dashboard that contains the tile you want to investigate, then click directly on a data point — a bar, a line point, a pie slice, or a table value.

In Discover, run a query so you have results on screen, then use the Drill Anywhere menu on a result value.

Step-by-step

If the inline menu offers More dimensions → (because the tile's node has more drillable fields than fit in the list), choosing it opens the Drill modal directly on its dimension menu so you can pick from the full list.

Examples

You are looking at a Revenue by Channel bar chart and the Organic Search bar is unusually high.

1. Click the Organic Search bar. The inline menu opens with Channel: Organic Search at the top.
2. Choose Drill into… → By Country. The Drill modal opens a breakdown of Organic Search revenue grouped by country.
3. India stands out, so click By Device in the sidebar to split it further. The header breadcrumbs now read By country › By device.
4. Click View rows to see the underlying orders, or Explain (Orion) for a written read on the value.

Under the hood, the breakdown re-runs the tile's query with the clicked value added as a filter and the chosen dimension as the new grouping. The equivalent query state looks like this:

{
  "selected_attributes": [{ "node": "orders", "attribute": "country" }],
  "filters": [
    { "field": "channel", "operator": "=", "value": "Organic Search" }
  ]
}

{
  "globalFilters": [
    { "field": "order_date", "operator": ">=", "value": "2025-08-01" },
    { "field": "order_date", "operator": "<=", "value": "2025-08-31" }
  ]
}

The same expansion applies to week, quarter, and year grains.

Drill Anywhere in Discover

In Discover, the Drill Anywhere menu opens on a result value. It lists drill dimensions grouped by node, with a search box at the top so you can filter long lists by label. Each entry shows the dimension label and its node.field reference. A View rows action sits at the bottom of the menu. Selecting a dimension pivots the result by it; selecting View rows shows the records behind the value.

Best practices

• Drill down, not wide: break one interesting value into sub-segments before you reach for a dashboard-wide cross-filter.
• Follow a hypothesis. Each breakdown should answer "which part of this drove the change?" — the breadcrumbs keep your trail visible.
• Use View rows to sanity-check an aggregate before you act on it, especially for surprisingly round or surprisingly extreme numbers.
• Use Explain (Orion) to get suggested next dimensions when you are not sure where to look — it points at two or three dimensions worth investigating.
• Keep tiles on a sensible node. Drill options are scoped to the tile's node, so a well-modeled tile gives you the most relevant drill paths.

Tips

Common mistakes

Troubleshooting

Related pages

• Cross-filtering
• Mosaics
• Discover
• Orion