Tuning

Find out which repository got worse this month

A chart that goes up tells you something happened and nothing about what. The point of the trends page is that the answer is three clicks away, and that every number on the way down opens the rows it counted rather than something close to them.

What to do

Open Trends and set the period to the last ninety days. The line is built from what every finding says about when it was first seen, so it exists on the first day rather than ninety days after you installed the product.
Scroll past the chart and the risk matrix to the grid underneath. At the top level it is one row per organization, worst first by grade rather than by volume: three criticals outrank two hundred informational findings.
Press Drill down on the organization that moved. The same page comes back narrowed to that account, with the chart and the matrix narrowed with it, and the grid now showing its repositories.
Sort on the column you actually care about by clicking its heading. Clicking it again turns it around. The sort runs over every repository in the account rather than the twenty five on screen, so the top of the list is the top of the list.
Press Drill down again on the repository. Now it is branches, which is where a release branch months behind the default one stops being a detail.
Press Findings on the branch. That leaves the trends page and opens exactly the findings the number counted: every state, every exception, ungrouped, so the list holds what the figure said it held.

A tip

Every step is in the address bar, so the view you end on can be pasted to somebody else and it will be the same view when they open it. There is a thirty four second recording of this walk on the Trends feature page.