How to filter alerts by custom category ?

[musabmasood]

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Hello.

I need some help in filtering alerts by custom category in Code Scanning (security). I have a mono repo and I am uploading custom results.sarif files using a matrix setup (different helm charts and values etc). The results.sarif file is generated by my tool (checkov).

For each scan, I am uploading my own results.sarif file as like this:

      - uses: github/codeql-action/upload-sarif@v2
        with:
          sarif_file: ./results.sarif
          category: mycategory

The upload is successful and I can also see it with the curl:

curl \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $(cat ~/.ssh/gh-token-personal)" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28"  \
  https://api.github.com/repos/xxx/yyy/code-scanning/analyses  | jq

Partial result:

{
    "ref": "refs/pull/xxx/merge",
    "commit_sha": "xxxx",
    "analysis_key": ".github/workflows/xxx.yml:xxx",
    "category": "mycategory",
    "results_count": 132,
    "rules_count": 15,
    "sarif_id": "xxxxxxxx",
}

However I am not finding a way to filter these alerts based on my category in the UI:

Can someone please help me on this?

[sampart]

Hi @musabmasood, thanks for getting in touch. Filtering by category isn't something the UI supports at present, but I've brought your request to the attention of our product team.

You mentioned that you have a mono-repo; I don't know whether you'd find the path filter helpful? This is available via the filter bar:

Best wishes,
Sam

[musabmirza-amperon]

Hi @sampart

Thanks for the info.

The Path filter doesn't help as we really want to use the category to segment out things for us e.g. kubernetes-application-services, kubernetes-system-services etc.

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