# Supabase — Explorer and Notebooks: investigations your team can rerun

- Company: Supabase (supabase.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-30
- Category: capability-change
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://supabase.com/blog/explorer-and-notebooks-investigations-your-team-can-rerun
- Record: https://forck.live/items/29931-explorer-and-notebooks-investigations-your-team-can-rerun
- Subject: Supabase

Supabase has added Explorer, a new query editor in its Dashboard that reaches logs as well as the database, along with Notebooks that save queries and notes in a file inside the project's supabase folder. The company says diagnosing a production problem usually means reading logs, usage charts and database reports separately and correlating them by hand, since logs speak a different query dialect. Explorer puts both sources in one editor, where a user picks a source, writes SQL and sees each result as a table or a chart, and log queries carry their own time range. Notebooks hold queries of various types as cells with markdown notes, and because a notebook saves queries rather than results, running it later returns current data. Supabase Assistant, the dashboard's chat panel, can write queries in the same editor and can write, run and persist notebook cells, with every create and edit waiting for approval; the company says nothing requires the Assistant and a notebook can be written by hand. Notebooks live in the supabase folder, so they are versioned, reviewed in pull requests and pulled down with the CLI or pushed up from a local file. Explorer is in feature preview and available to every project, turned on under Feature Previews, where it replaces the SQL Editor in the sidebar; the notebooks commands are in the beta version of the CLI.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://supabase.com/blog/explorer-and-notebooks-investigations-your-team-can-rerun:

> Explorer is the new query editor in the Supabase Dashboard, and it reaches your logs as well as your database. It introduces Notebooks: a file in your supabase folder that combines saved database or log queries with markdown notes. Run a notebook yourself, or have your agent run it as part of its ongoing observations. Explorer is in feature preview and available to every project today. Turn it on under Feature Previews in the Supabase Dashboard.
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> Query your database and your logs from one editor #
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> Diagnosing a production problem means reading logs, usage charts, and database reports separately and correlating them yourself. The logs speak a different query dialect, and the connection between them lives in your head. Explorer puts your database and your logs in one editor. Choose a source, write SQL against it, and every result renders as a table or a chart.
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> If you'd rather describe what you want in plain language, Supabase Assistant , the chat panel built into the dashboard, writes the query inside the same editor, where you can read it and change it before it runs.

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