> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ryft.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Asset Explorer

> View all Iceberg tables in one workbench with storage metrics, usage stats, and saved views. Filter, sort, and browse to answer questions about your lakehouse.

### Overview

The **Asset Explorer** provides visibility into all Iceberg tables in your lakehouse in an easy-to-use workbench, including all their properties, storage metrics and usage statistics.

It empowers teams to:

* Analyze usage - learn which tables are very popular and require additional optimizations, and which tables aren't used and can be cleaned up
* Inspect storage utilization - identify who are the largest tables, how much of their storage is used for active snapshots vs. old snapshots, etc.
* Validate configurations - ensure all tables are managed properly, and have the right configurations and properties set up

### Saved Views

The Asset Explorer includes several saved views that can assist in common use cases.

* **New Tables** - all the new tables added to Ryft - useful for monitoring lakehouse usage and validating proper configuration
* **Stale Tables** - all tables that weren't updated in the past month - useful for detecting errors or storage waste
* **Unoptimized Tables** - tables that aren't currently managed by Ryft

### Columns & Filters

The Asset Explorer supports dynamic viewing, filtering and sorting of many fields, allowing you to analyze your lakehouse assets from different angles. You can view, filter and sort by:

* Table configuration, including **Default Partition Keys**, **Default Sort Order**, **Write Strategy**, and any table property defined for the table
* Storage metrics, including **Total Storage**, **Active Storage**, **Average Partition Size** and **Average File Size**
* Usage metrics, including **Query Count** and **Last Queried**
* And many more…

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### Additional Capabilities

* **Export** - export filtered results to a CSV file. All exported values are **unformatted** for easier post-processing - durations in milliseconds, sizes in raw bytes, etc.
* **Shareable URLs** - the current view can be shared with team members simply by sending the current URL. All filters, columns and sorts are encoded in the URL.
