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Custom views turn your data into layouts such as conversation transcripts, tool-call lists, and input/output comparisons. Describe what you want to Alyx, refine the preview, and accept it as a new tab. No code is required.
Unlike Saved Views, which store table settings, custom views reshape the underlying data.

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Where you can create a custom view

Custom views use the data already available on each surface:

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Create a view

Open Customize Tabs on a trace and click Create Custom View to generate a view with Alyx.

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Start

From a trace or session, open Customize Tabs and click Create Custom View. From a labeling-queue record, click +. You can also open Alyx directly (Cmd+L / Ctrl+L) and ask it to create a view.
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Describe the layout you want

Tell Alyx what you want to see, in plain language. Be specific about the data and the shape: a list, a table, a chat transcript, or side-by-side panels.
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Preview and refine

Adjust the live preview until it looks right. Nothing is saved until you click Accept.
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Accept, manage, and share

Click Accept to add the tab. In Customize Tabs, you can edit the view or show and hide its tab. You can rename or delete views you created; org admins can also delete published views. Creators who are org admins can select Visible to everyone to publish a view. The creator or an org admin can unpublish it. For labeling queues, the creator or an org admin can select Show on all queues. Tab visibility is browser-specific and applies only to you.

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What to ask Alyx

Name the data and layout you want:
  • Trace: “Show all tool calls with their inputs and outputs.” You can also request a conversation, side-by-side comparison, span timeline with errors highlighted, or sortable table of LLM latency, tokens, and cost.
  • Session: “Show each turn as a chat bubble with its latency.” Other useful layouts include a trace table with status, duration, and token counts or a running token-usage total.
  • Labeling queue: “Put the model output beside the annotation rubric.” You can also ask Alyx to turn the record’s columns into a scannable card.

Refining a view: ask Alyx to edit an existing custom view to also show cost per span.

To refine a view, ask Alyx to add a search box or cost column, switch to a side-by-side layout, sort the slowest spans first, or group rows by span kind.

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Good to know

  • Nothing saves until you accept. Refine a preview as much as you want before committing it.
  • Views can only show available data. Trace inputs and outputs belong to the selected span; session views receive them for every span. If requested data is unavailable, Alyx suggests what it can show.
  • New views are personal by default. Their creator must be an org admin to publish them.
  • Controls are display-only. They can search, sort, filter, expand, collapse, or select a span, but cannot write data, record feedback, or submit annotations. Labeling-queue views are read-only.