# What does filtering mode even do?

**URL:** https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/what-does-filtering-mode-even-do/5119
**Category:** Lens General
**Tags:** macos, lens-desktop
**Created:** [December 9, 2024, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/what-does-filtering-mode-even-do/5119 "2024-12-09T08:56:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![hafizhmh](https://forums.k8slens.dev/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@hafizhmh](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/hafizhmh)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2024, 8:56am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/what-does-filtering-mode-even-do/5119/1 "2024-12-09T08:56:51Z")

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Filtering mode enabled:

 ![image](https://forums.k8slens.dev/original/2X/4/41d135a09dfc649dbc2b4475512635045c446901.png)

Filtering mode disabled:

 ![image](https://forums.k8slens.dev/original/2X/e/e53db3141751df49a9d89ad9a326b086800d47c2.png)

I don’t see any difference?

The documentation does not contain any entry about “filtering mode”.

 ![image](https://forums.k8slens.dev/original/2X/0/0959734fe5849932e077a49345a0aa0152d0799e.jpeg)

Lens: 2024.11.261604-latest  
Electron: 31.7.5  
Chrome: 126.0.6478.234  
Node: 20.18.0

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### Author: ![phorsmalahti](https://forums.k8slens.dev/user_avatar/forums.k8slens.dev/phorsmalahti/32/560_2.png) [@phorsmalahti](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/phorsmalahti)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2024, 9:08am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/what-does-filtering-mode-even-do/5119/2 "2024-12-09T09:08:09Z")

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Hi, this is a bug, thanks for reporting it. We’re going to fix it in a future release. The filtering mode has an effect in the Logs view, for example.

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### Author: ![hafizhmh](https://forums.k8slens.dev/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@hafizhmh](https://forums.k8slens.dev/u/hafizhmh)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2024, 9:28am UTC](https://forums.k8slens.dev/t/what-does-filtering-mode-even-do/5119/3 "2024-12-09T09:28:48Z")

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I see, indeed it works correctly in the logs view (highlight only when disabled, filtered when enabled). Thank you for your answer.
