diff --git a/src/blackgui/components/logcomponent.cpp b/src/blackgui/components/logcomponent.cpp
index c0f0d2a51..7f41c8068 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/components/logcomponent.cpp
+++ b/src/blackgui/components/logcomponent.cpp
@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ namespace BlackGui
             {
                 ui->comp_StatusMessages->appendStatusMessagesToList(messages);
             });
+            connect(ui->comp_StatusMessages, &CStatusMessagesDetail::filterChanged, this, [this](const CVariant &filter)
+            {
+                clearMessages();
+                m_history.setFilter(filter.to<CLogPattern>());
+            });
             m_history.setFilter(CLogPattern().withSeverityAtOrAbove(CStatusMessage::SeverityInfo));
             m_history.initialize(sApp->getDataLinkDBus());
         }
diff --git a/src/blackgui/components/statusmessagesdetail.cpp b/src/blackgui/components/statusmessagesdetail.cpp
index 38eda50c3..b2b4f56c3 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/components/statusmessagesdetail.cpp
+++ b/src/blackgui/components/statusmessagesdetail.cpp
@@ -8,10 +8,13 @@
 
 #include "statusmessagesdetail.h"
 #include "ui_statusmessagesdetail.h"
+#include "blackgui/filters/statusmessagefilterbar.h"
+#include "blackgui/filters/statusmessagefilterdialog.h"
 
 using namespace BlackMisc;
 using namespace BlackGui::Menus;
 using namespace BlackGui::Views;
+using namespace BlackGui::Filters;
 
 namespace BlackGui
 {
@@ -29,6 +32,11 @@ namespace BlackGui
             ui->tvp_StatusMessages->setCustomMenu(new CMessageMenu(this));
             ui->tvp_StatusMessages->menuAddItems(CStatusMessageView::MenuSave);
             this->showFilterBar(); // default
+
+            connect(ui->filter_LogMessages, &CStatusMessageFilterBar::changeFilter, this, [this](bool enable)
+            {
+                emit filterChanged(enable ? ui->filter_LogMessages->createModelFilter()->getAsValueObject() : CVariant{});
+            });
         }
 
         CStatusMessagesDetail::~CStatusMessagesDetail()
@@ -57,6 +65,11 @@ namespace BlackGui
         {
             ui->tvp_StatusMessages->addFilterDialog();
             ui->filter_LogMessages->hide();
+
+            connect(ui->tvp_StatusMessages->getFilterDialog(), &QDialog::accepted, [this]
+            {
+                emit filterChanged(ui->tvp_StatusMessages->getFilterDialog()->createModelFilter()->getAsValueObject());
+            });
         }
 
         void CStatusMessagesDetail::showFilterBar()
diff --git a/src/blackgui/components/statusmessagesdetail.h b/src/blackgui/components/statusmessagesdetail.h
index 2596c0f9b..359ca282e 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/components/statusmessagesdetail.h
+++ b/src/blackgui/components/statusmessagesdetail.h
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ namespace BlackGui
             //! \copydoc BlackGui::Views::CStatusMessageView::modelDataChangedDigest
             void modelDataChangedDigest(int count, bool withFilter);
 
+            //! The user changed their message filter
+            void filterChanged(const BlackMisc::CVariant &filter);
+
         private:
             QScopedPointer<Ui::CStatusMessagesDetail> ui;
             int m_maxLogMessages = -1;
diff --git a/src/blackgui/models/modelfilter.h b/src/blackgui/models/modelfilter.h
index e19ef0caa..ca125a53c 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/models/modelfilter.h
+++ b/src/blackgui/models/modelfilter.h
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include "blackmisc/simulation/distributorlist.h"
 #include "blackmisc/simulation/simulatedaircraftlist.h"
 #include "blackmisc/statusmessagelist.h"
+#include "blackmisc/variant.h"
 
 #include <QString>
 #include <Qt>
@@ -58,6 +59,9 @@ namespace BlackGui
             //! Enabled?
             void setEnabled(bool enable);
 
+            //! Return an implementation-specific value object representing the filter
+            virtual BlackMisc::CVariant getAsValueObject() const { return {}; }
+
         protected:
             //! Standard string search supporting wildcard at begin and end: "*xyz", "abc*"
             bool stringMatchesFilterExpression(const QString &value, const QString &filter, Qt::CaseSensitivity cs = Qt::CaseInsensitive) const;
diff --git a/src/blackgui/models/statusmessagefilter.cpp b/src/blackgui/models/statusmessagefilter.cpp
index 707695d72..802db0a1b 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/models/statusmessagefilter.cpp
+++ b/src/blackgui/models/statusmessagefilter.cpp
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
  */
 
 #include "blackgui/models/statusmessagefilter.h"
+#include "blackmisc/logpattern.h"
 
 using namespace BlackMisc;
 
@@ -46,5 +47,29 @@ namespace BlackGui
             }
             return outContainer;
         }
+
+        CVariant CStatusMessageFilter::getAsValueObject() const
+        {
+            if (!m_category.contains('*'))
+            {
+                if (CLogPattern::allHumanReadableNames().contains(m_category))
+                {
+                    return CVariant::from(CLogPattern::fromHumanReadableName(m_category).withSeverityAtOrAbove(m_severity));
+                }
+                return CVariant::from(CLogPattern::exactMatch(m_category).withSeverityAtOrAbove(m_severity));
+            }
+
+            CLogCategoryList categories = CLogCategory::allSpecialCategories();
+            categories.removeIf([this](const CLogCategory &cat) { return this->stringMatchesFilterExpression(cat.toQString(), this->m_category); });
+            CSequence<QString> humanNames = CLogPattern::allHumanReadableNames();
+            humanNames.removeIf([this](const QString &name) { return this->stringMatchesFilterExpression(name, this->m_category); });
+            auto humanCats = humanNames.transform([](const QString &name)
+            {
+                const auto strings = CLogPattern::fromHumanReadableName(name).getCategoryStrings();
+                return strings.isEmpty() ? QString{} : *strings.begin();
+            });
+
+            return CVariant::from(CLogPattern::anyOf(categories.join(humanCats)).withSeverityAtOrAbove(m_severity));
+        }
     } // namespace
 } // namespace
diff --git a/src/blackgui/models/statusmessagefilter.h b/src/blackgui/models/statusmessagefilter.h
index 3681028c4..1fe63a124 100644
--- a/src/blackgui/models/statusmessagefilter.h
+++ b/src/blackgui/models/statusmessagefilter.h
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 #include "blackmisc/statusmessagelist.h"
 #include <QString>
 
+namespace BlackMisc { class CLogPattern; }
+
 namespace BlackGui
 {
     namespace Models
@@ -30,6 +32,9 @@ namespace BlackGui
             //! \copydoc IModelFilter::filter
             virtual BlackMisc::CStatusMessageList filter(const BlackMisc::CStatusMessageList &inContainer) const override;
 
+            //! \copydoc IModelFilter::getAsValueObject
+            virtual BlackMisc::CVariant getAsValueObject() const override;
+
         private:
             BlackMisc::CStatusMessage::StatusSeverity m_severity = BlackMisc::CStatusMessage::SeverityError;
             QString m_msgText;
diff --git a/src/blackmisc/logpattern.h b/src/blackmisc/logpattern.h
index 4f7099bfa..5c5d331a0 100644
--- a/src/blackmisc/logpattern.h
+++ b/src/blackmisc/logpattern.h
@@ -96,6 +96,9 @@ namespace BlackMisc
         //! This class acts as a SharedState filter when stored in a CVariant.
         bool matches(const CVariant &message) const { return match(message.to<CStatusMessage>()); }
 
+        //! Technical category names matched by this pattern.
+        QSet<QString> getCategoryStrings() const { return m_strings; }
+
         //! Returns true if this pattern is a proper subset of the other pattern.
         //! \see     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_subset
         //! \details Pattern A is a proper subset of pattern B iff pattern B would match every category which pattern A matches,