The following tables describe the options for customizing the behavior of Kusto.Explorer from the Tools > Options dialog box.
General Settings
Option
Description
Tool Mode
Enables beta, alpha and experimental application features. Default is none.
Extended Accessibility
When enabled, the application sends accessibility events used by accessibility tools. May affect performance if enabled. Default is disabled.
Allow sending telemetry data
When enabled, the application sends telemetry data when errors occur or the application crashes.
Welcome message
When enabled, the application shows the welcome message on start. Default is enabled.
Display theme
The application UI color scheme: light or dark.
Query Editor
Option
Description
Queries auto-save
When enabled, the application automatically saves open documents. Changing this setting requires restarting the application to take effect. Enabled by default.
Track changes
When enabled, the application tracks changes made to query scripts on disk by other applications. If the query script is changed externally you'll be notified and prompted for reloading it. Changing this setting requires restarting the application. Enabled by default.
Use Edit Sessions
When enabled, each application process owns its own set of documents. Disabled by default.
Font Size
The font size used in the query editor.
Select command background
The background color used to highlight the currently selected command.
Replace tabs with spaces
When enabled, tabs are automatically replaced with spaces.
Disable function parameter injection
When enabled, function parameter injection from the clipboard is disabled.
Disable query parameter injection
When enabled, query parameter injection is disabled.
Disable query run triggers except F5
When enabled, only the F5 key will trigger queries to run.
Show help inside the application
When enabled, Help topics are shown inside the application. When disabled Help topics are opened inside a browser.
Query parameter length limit
The maximal length of a string that can be used as a query parameter. Setting this value to more than 128K may cause performance issues. Default is 64K.
IntelliSense
Option
Description
IntelliSense Version
The version of IntelliSense engine used. V1 is the classic engine. V2 is the modern engine. Default is V2.
IntelliSense: Control Commands
The version of IntelliSense for control commands. V1 is the classic engine. V2 is the modern engine. Default is V2.
IntelliSense
Enables or disables IntelliSense. Default is enabled.
Syntax Highlighting
Enables or disables syntax highlighting. Default is enabled.
Tool-tips
Enables or disables the tool-tips that appear when the mouse hovers over areas of the selected query. Default is enabled.
Formatter
Option
Description
Version
The version of the formatter used when the Prettify Query tool is applied to the current query. V1 is the classic formatter. V2 is the modern formatter. Default is V2.
Indentation
The number of spaces for indented items.
Function Braces
The placement of function braces. Vertical places open and close curly braces on new lines. Horizontal leaves the open brace on its original line and places the close brace on a new line. None leaves all braces as is.
Pipe Operator
The placement of the pipe (bar) character that exists between tabular query operators. New Line places all pipe characters on a new line. Smart places all pipe characters on a new line if the query already spans more than one line. None leaves all pipe characters as is.
Semicolon
The placement of semicolons that end query statements. New Line places semicolons on a new line, indented. Smart places semicolons on a new line if the statement itself spans more than one line. None leaves semicolons as is.
Insert Missing Syntax
Adds missing punctuation like (such as commas and semicolons) that you are getting error messages for.
Results Viewer
Option
Description
Font Size
The font size used by the data table grid, where query results are shown.
Verbosity color scheme
Selects the color scheme for row formatting base on auto-detected verbosity level.
Hide empty columns
When enabled, empty columns in the view showing data will be hidden. Default is disabled.
Collapse single-value columns
When enabled, will auto-collapse single-value columns in the view showing data. Columns with single non-empty values will be shown as groups. Default is disabled.
Auto-sort results by datetime columns
When enabled, rows will be auto-sorted by datetime columns. Default is enabled.
Column visible range
The maximal amount of characters to be displayed in a column. Default is 2048.
Visualize JSON as text
When enabled, JSON values are visualized as text. Default is disabled.
Maximum Text Details Size
The maximum number of characters that will be shown in the detailed information panel when the cell is double-clicked. Default is 32KB.
Connections
Option
Description
Sort table columns alphabetically
When enabled, the columns appearing under the table nodes in the connections panel will be sorted alphabetically.
Query Server Timeout
The server timeout for query execution.
Warn on connection lock
When enabled, the application will warn about connection lock every time a connection switch is attempted. Default is enabled.
Lazy schema exploration
When enabled, the connections panel will only fetch and display database schema when the database node is expanded.
Show hidden system objects
When enabled, hidden system objects will be shown if the user has appropriate permissions.
Query weak consistency
When enabled, weak consistency will be used for queries.
Kusto parser version
The version of the parser used to execute queries. V1 is the classic parser. V2 is the modern parser. Default is V1.