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# Drilldown

The Drilldown view helps you to quickly identify and highlight the most informative attributes - those that stand out and help you pinpoint anomalies or bottlenecks.

## **Distribution Mode**

In this mode, groundcover showcases the top attributes found in your traces or logs data. Each attribute displays up to four values with the highest occurrence across the selected traces.

You can click any value to add or exclude it as a filter and continue drilling down interactively.

### **How attributes are selected**

We use statistical scoring based on:

* **Entropy**: how diverse the values of an attribute are.
* **Presence ratio**: how often the attribute appears across the selected traces.

Attributes that are both common and have high entropy are prioritized.


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