It's no secret that Data Explorer is one of the most used modules in Kentik Portal. Today we're releasing a convenience feature that lets users decide which metrics are used by default for their Data Explorer queries.
A lot of our heavy Data Explorer users have been asking for this in the past and we're happy to announce that the feature is now generally available. Enjoy!

By default, Data Explorer always uses the same three default metrics when users build queries from scratch:

Each user company have their different golden metrics that they rely on, and speaking with customers, it appeared that some of you ended up constantly needing to change the metrics in Data Explorer as you are building queries from the ground up.
To make it easier, we built the "Default Metrics" functionality in that same "Metrics Selector" UI.

At the bottom of the metrics selector, you will now notice this new Default Metrics panel

This panel will let you do the following

• Clicking on "Set as Default" will set the currently selected Metrics as default:
  The next new Data Explorer query you will create will have these metrics selected by default. Saving currently selected Metrics to default also includes the settings in the Primary and Secondary Display and Sort Metrics.
• Hovering on "Load Defaults" will show you the ones you've set as default:
  Before loading these to replace the current set of selected metrics, a tooltip will show you what the metrics are in your default set, as well as which one is the primary, and which one is the secondary. Both will be highlighted with a colored dot, as well as a number showing you which one is primary or secondary.
• Clicking on "Load Defaults" loads these queries in replacement of the currently selected ones

Important side note
These defaults are set per user: they may differ between different users within the same company.