Discover and search Machine Data Lake data

Use the Catalog to find Machine Data Lake datasets, review Machine Data Lake-specific details, and choose the supported search or promotion path for each dataset type.

Use the Catalog guide for shared Catalog workflows, such as opening the Catalog, filtering or sorting datasets, inspecting side-panel details, and starting a search. See Discovering data for your investigations using the Catalog.

Use these Machine Data Lake topics to understand how raw tables, promoted datasets, and promotion jobs appear in the Catalog, and how search behavior changes by dataset type.

After you find the dataset, see Choose an MDL data strategy to decide whether to search raw data, use an existing promoted dataset, or create a promotion.