Kusto.Explorer keyboard shortcuts (hot keys)

2025-05-04

Applies to: ✅ 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`	Moves to new line and adds `pipe` symbol
`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