title: Azure CosmosDB MongoDB How To Query: Query Explorer
body: <p>I am exploring Azure CosmosDB and having trouble with understanding how I can query my collection.  I created a web application to add and query the data but I want to search within Azure and do not know how I should structure my query.</p>
  
  <p>Currently I query my collection running to return everything.</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT * FROM c
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This returns a lot of information.  Here is a sample of what the data looks like. </p>
  
  <pre><code>  {
      "$t": 3,
      "$v": {
        "searchTerm": {
          "$t": 2,
          "$v": "test"
        },
        "searchDate": {
          "$t": 9,
          "$v": 1501606675858
        },
        "_id": {
          "$t": 7,
          "$v": "Y³\u0013&amp;Ò#\bø\u0005+ú"
        },
        "__v": {
          "$t": 16,
          "$v": 0
        }
      },
      "id": "NTk4MGIzMTMyNmQyMjMwOGY4MDUyYmZh",
      "_rid": "pR8YAPXxJQABAAAAAAAAAA==",
      "_self": "dbs/pR8YAA==/colls/pR8YAPXxJQA=/docs/pR8YAPXxJQABAAAAAAAAAA==/",
      "_etag": "\"020094b9-0000-0000-0000-5980b3130000\"",
      "_attachments": "attachments/",
      "_ts": 1501606672   }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there a way to just query for a certain "searchTerm" (a field within my CosmosDB).  I cannot seem to grasp the Syntax to filter down my query.  I have tried a combination of things that would seem to make sense in SQL but none of it is working.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help.</p>