---
title: Manage your Discover view and sessions
description: Customize the Discover view, keep explorations in tabs, save and share sessions, run long queries in the background, and create alert rules.
url: https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/manage-discover
products:
  - Elastic Documentation
  - Kibana
applies_to:
  - Elastic Cloud Serverless: Generally available
  - Elastic Stack: Generally available
---

# Manage your Discover view and sessions
If you want to keep a **Discover** exploration, share it with others, or tailor how it looks, start here. A session stores your query, filters, and view, so you can save it, add it to a dashboard, copy or export its results, or turn it into an alert rule.

## Set up your workspace

- [Customize the Discover view](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/document-explorer) to show the columns, density, and layout you need.
- Keep [several explorations open side by side](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/work-with-tabs) in tabs.


## Save and share your explorations

- [Save sessions](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/save-open-search) to reuse your queries, filters, and views later, and open, find, or duplicate them.
- [Add sessions to dashboards](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/use-sessions-in-dashboards) as charts, tables, or whole sessions.
- [Copy results](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/copy-and-share-documents) as text, JSON, or Markdown, or share a link to a session or a document.
- [Export your results](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/export-discover-session) as a CSV file, or the session itself as JSON.
- Run long queries in the [background](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/background-search).
- [Create an alert rule](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/generate-alerts-from-discover) from the query and filters of a session.


## Related pages

- [How Discover works](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/discover-get-started)
- [Explore your data in Discover](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/explore-data)
- [How to query in Discover's ES|QL mode](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/use-esql)
- [How to query in Discover's classic mode](https://www.elastic.co/docs/explore-analyze/discover/use-classic-mode)