Kusto.Explorer keyboard shortcuts (hot keys)
Applies to: ✅ Microsoft Fabric ✅ Azure Data Explorer
Application-level
The following keyboard shortcuts can be used in any context:
| Hot key | Description |
|---|---|
| F1 | Opens the help |
| F11 | Toggle full-view mode |
| Ctrl+F1 | Toggle ribbon appearance |
| Ctrl++ | Increases query and data results font |
| Ctrl+- | Decreases query and data results font |
| Ctrl+0 | Resets query and data results font |
| Ctrl+1 .. 7 | Switches to Query document panel with the respective number (1..7) |
| Ctrl+F2 | Renames header of the Query Editor panel |
| Ctrl+N | Opens a new query editor |
| Ctrl+O | Open query editor script in a new query editor |
| Ctrl+W | Closes active query editor |
| Ctrl+S | Saves query into a file |
| Shift+F3 | Opens Analytical Report Gallery |
| Shift+F12 | Toggles the Light/Dark theme of the application |
| Ctrl+F12 | Toggles Extended Accessibility events of the application (requires a restart to take effect) |
| Alt+Ctrl+F12 | Opens Kusto.Explorer Calculator utility |
| Ctrl+Shift+O | Opens Kusto.Explorer options and settings dialog |
| Esc | Cancel running query |
| Shift+F5 | Cancel running query |
Query and results view
You can use the following keyboard shortcuts with the query editor or when the context is in the results view:
| Hot key | Description |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Shift+C | Copies query, deep-link, and data to the clipboard |
| Alt+Shift+C | Copies query and deep-link the clipboard in HTML format |
| Alt+Shift+R | Copies query, deep-link, and places data in the clipboard in Markdown format |
| Alt+Shift+M | Copies query and deep-link the clipboard in Markdown format |
| Ctrl+~ | Copies query and data to the clipboard in markdown format |
| Ctrl+Shift+D | Toggles mode of hiding duplicate rows in the data view |
| Alt+Shift+H | Toggles mode of hiding empty columns in the data view |
| Ctrl+Shift+J | Toggles mode of collapsing columns with a single value in the data view |
| Ctrl+Shift+A | Opens a Query Analyzer tool in a new query panel |
| Alt+C | Renders Column chart over existing data |
| Alt+T | Renders Timeline chart over existing data |
| Alt+A | Renders Anomaly timeline chart over existing data |
| Alt+P | Renders Pie chart over existing data |
| Alt+L | Renders Ladder timeline chart over existing data |
| Alt+V | Renders Pivot chart over existing data |
| Ctrl+Shift+V | Shows Timeline pivot over existing data |
| Ctrl+F9 | Toggles show only matching rows/highlight matching rows modes for client text search (Ctrl+F) behavior in the data grid. |
| Ctrl+F10 | Shows details panel - where the selected row is presented as property grid |
| Ctrl+F | Shows the search box for the panel that is currently in focus. Supported in Connections, Data Results, and Query Editor panels |
| Ctrl+Tab | Shows Query Editor document selector dialog. You can hold Ctrl and switch between documents with Tab |
| Ctrl+J | Toggles the appearance of the result panel |
| Ctrl+E | Toggles the appearance of the query editor and result panel in the cycle of: Query Editor and Results -> Query Editor -> Query Editor and Results -> Results |
| Ctrl+Shift+E | Toggles the appearance of the query editor and result panel in the cycle of: Query Editor and Results -> Results -> Query Editor and Results -> Query Editor |
| F6 | Toggles the focus of the main application panel in the cycle of: Connections panel -> Query Editor -> Results |
| Ctrl+Shift+R | Focuses on Results panel |
| Ctrl+Shift+T | Focuses on Connections panel |
| Ctrl+Shift+Q | Focuses on Work Documents panel |
| Ctrl+Shift+Y | Focuses on Query editor |
| Ctrl+Shift+P | Focuses on Chart panel |
| Ctrl+Shift+I | Focuses on Query Information panel |
| Ctrl+Shift+S | Focuses on Query Statistics panel |
| Ctrl+Shift+K | Focuses on Error panel |
| Alt+Ctrl+L | Locks current connection context to the Query Editor, so changing the selected row in the Connection panel has no effect on the Query Editor context. |
Results Table Viewer
The following keyboard shortcuts can be used when the Results view (table) is in active keyboard focus:
| Hot key | Description |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Q | Show current column context menu |
| Ctrl+S | Toggle current column sorting |
| Ctrl+U | Opens a panel showing current column values with client-side filtering |
| Ctrl+F | Shows search box for the results |
| Ctrl+F3 | Toggles show only matching rows/highlight matching rows modes for client text search (Ctrl+F) behavior in the data grid. |
Query editor
The following keyboard shortcuts can be used when editing a query in the query editor:
| Hot key | Description |
|---|---|
| F1 | When the cursor points to an operator or function - opens a help window with information about the operator or function. If the help topic isn't present - opens a help URL |
| F5 | Run currently selected query |
| Shift+Enter | Run currently selected query |
| F8 | Fetch query results from the local cache. If results aren't present - run the currently selected query |
| Ctrl+F5 | Preview results of the selected query (shows few results and total count) |
| Ctrl+Shift+Space | Insert data cell selections as filters into the query |
| Ctrl+Space | Force IntelliSense rules check. Possible options will be shown in any rule matched |
| Ctrl+Enter | Adds pipe symbol and moves to a new line |
| Ctrl+Z | Undo |
| Ctrl+Y | Redo |
| Ctrl+L | Deletes current line |
| Ctrl+D | Deletes current line |
| Ctrl+F | Opens Find dialog |
| Ctrl+Shift+F | Opens Find dialog (all tabs lookup) |
| Ctrl+H | Opens Replace dialog |
| Ctrl+Shift+H | Opens Replace dialog (all tabs lookup) |
| Ctrl+G | Opens Go-to line dialog |
| Ctrl+F8 | Show my queries past 3 days |
| Ctrl+ bracket | When the cursor is at a bracket symbol: ( , ) , [ , ] , { , } - moves the cursor to the matching opening or closing bracket |
| Alt+Shift+F | Prettify current query |
| Ctrl+Shift+L | Make current query or selection lower-case |
| Ctrl+Shift+U | Make current query or selection upper-case |
| Ctrl+Mouse wheel up | Increases font of the query editor |
| Ctrl+Mouse wheel down | Decreases font of the query editor |
| Alt+P | Opens query parameters dialog |
| F2 | Open current line / selected text in editor dialog |
| Ctrl+F6 | Runs KQL static query analysis to detect common issues |
| F12 | Navigate to the definition of the symbol |
| Alt+F12 | Find all references of the current symbol |
| Alt+Home | Navigate to the definition of the symbol |
| Alt+Ctrl+M | Extract currently selected literal or tabular expression as let statement |
| Ctrl+. | Extract currently selected literal or tabular expression as let statement |
| Ctrl+R, Ctrl+R | Renames current symbol |
| Ctrl+K, Ctrl+D | Inserts current timestamp as datetime literal |
| Ctrl+K, Ctrl+R | Inserts range x from 1 to 1 step 1 snippet |
| Ctrl+K, Ctrl+C | Comment current line or selected lines |
| Ctrl+K, Ctrl+F | Prettify current query |
| Ctrl+K, Ctrl+V | Duplicate current query (append it to the end of current query document) |
| Ctrl+K, Ctrl+U | Uncomment current line or selected lines |
| Ctrl+K, Ctrl+S | Turn current line or selected lines into multi-line string literal |
| Ctrl+K, Ctrl+M | Remove multi-line string literal marks (reverse of Ctrl, K, Ctrl+S) |
| Ctrl+M, Ctrl+M | Toggle outlining expansion of the current query |
| Ctrl+M, Ctrl+L | Toggle outlining expansion of all queries in the document |
JSON viewer
The following keyboard shortcuts can be used from within the results JSON viewer. They display if you double-click on a JSON-like value in the results view cell:
| Hot key | Description |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+UpArrow | Navigate to parent |
| Ctrl+RightArrow | Expand current node (one level) |
| Ctrl+LeftArrow | Collapse current node (one level) |
| Ctrl+. | Toggle expansion of the current node (all child levels expanded/collapsed) |
| Ctrl+Shift+. | Toggle expansion of the current node parent (all child levels expanded/collapsed) |
Connection panel
The following keyboard shortcuts can be used from within the Connections panel:
| Hot key | Description |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+UpArrow | Navigate to parent |
| Ctrl+RightArrow | Expand current node (one level) |
| Ctrl+LeftArrow | Collapse current node (one level) |
| Ctrl+Shift+L | Collapse all levels |
| Ctrl+R | Refresh currently selected connection |
| Insert | Add a new connection |
| Del | Delete current connection |
| Ctrl+E | Edit currently selected connection |
| Ctrl+T | Open a new query editor using the currently selected connection |
Diagnostics and Monitoring
The following keyboard shortcuts are available from the Monitoring ribbon.
| Hot key | Description |
|---|---|
| Ctrl+Shift+F1 | Run cluster diagnostic flow |