Debugging Queries

Open the Query Editor

From any widget, Edit query opens the raw SAQL alongside a live results table — edit a line and rerun to see the effect immediately.

Step through the pipeline

Because SAQL is a sequence of reassignments to q, you can comment out later lines and rerun to see the data at any intermediate stage — a fast way to isolate which filter or group step introduced the problem.

Common mistakes

• Filtering after grouping when you meant to filter before — changes what gets aggregated.
• Comparing a date field without its derived suffix (_Year, _Month) instead of the exploded field.
• Forgetting as on a generated field, leaving it with an auto-generated name the chart can't bind to.

What you'll learn next

With SAQL covered, the Bindings section shows how dashboard widgets pass values to each other and to queries at runtime.