In this article, references to "quotation marks" indicate double (" ") quotation marks, not single (' '). Using single quotation marks when searching the Resource Center does not change your results.
This article offers tips that will help you improve search results, narrowing them down so you can find the information you need more quickly.
Search tips (overriding the default search behavior)
Default Search Behavior
Search for more than one term
By default, when you enter multiple search terms, the built-in search functionality will look for any of the terms you entered. That means that if you enter view message, the results will include all articles with EITHER the word view OR the word message. In many cases, the number of search results can be overwhelming. Read Search tips to learn how to override the default functionality.
Search Scope
All categories (home page)
When you search using the main search box, located on the home page, your search spans all categories of the Resource Center:
- meshIQ Platform
- meshIQ Cloud
- Observability
- Management
- Tracking
- Security
- REST API
- AutoPilot, Navigator, and XRay release history
- Newsletter archive
The main search box is the best method if you're not sure which category fits your search.
One category
From the Resource Center home page, you can choose to focus on one of three main categories. While on the home page, click one of the categories (pictured below) to view the contents of that category; a search box is also available. When you search within a category, your first search is filtered by that category (only the articles in that category are returned in search results).
For example, after you click the Management link to view Management contents, a breadcrumb path at the top of the page shows that you are searching the Management category:
Type a term in the Search box and press Enter on your keyboard.
In the example below, the 45 articles in the main results area are all in the Management category. An additional pane on the left shows that the entire Resource Center includes 180 articles or posts that contain the Kafka search term:
You can click on the links in the left pane to view a list of the each type of search result:
If you click the Articles link, as shown in the example above, the number of search results in each category is displayed. Click a category to view results within it.
As shown in both examples above, after results are displayed, the breadcrumb path shows meshIQ > Search results. This indicates that the search box will now apply to the entire Resource Center. For example, a search for dashboard at this point will include dashboard topics for the Management and Tracking categories:
If no results are found, a Browse Help Center link is provided for you to return to the Resource Center home page. For example, if we enter a term that we know will not be in the category we are in, the following page is displayed:
Search Tips
Search for all terms
To look only for articles that contain both (or all) of the search terms that you enter, enclose each search term in double quotation marks, with spaces in between. For example, to find all articles that contain both the terms message and schema within the Management category, perform this search:
“message” “schema”
By adding quotation marks in this way, the number of search results is reduced to 17.
Search for a phrase
To find a phrase (that is, multiple words in a row), enter the entire phrase in quotation marks. A good example is message criteria. Enter the following into the search box:
"message criteria"
By enclosing both terms in one set of quotation marks, you narrow the number of results from more than 300 to 18:
Exclude a term
To find articles that include some terms and exclude others, enter a minus sign in front of the term to be excluded.
SearchTermToInclude -SearchTermToExclude
Create a complex search
Lastly, you can combine more than one method, for example, by searching for both a phrase and an individual term. To find out about a deployment pack for the Grafana integration, enter the following using the home page search:
“Grafana” “deployment pack”
This search yielded 9 results. The same search without the use of quotation marks would have yielded more than 30 results.
Our Resource Center uses the Zendesk Guide platform. For more information about searches on this platform, see the following article, which is authored by the creators of Zendesk:
https://support.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4408894061338-About-Help-Center-end-user-search