I can't get the browsable API to show the "Filters" button after configuring django to use the filtering backend. According to the documentation all I need to do is add the following few lines of code into the site's settings.py file and the filters should automatically be in the browsable API's web interface, and I just don't see it there. I tried restarting the web server (I'm working with ./manage runserver) and that didn't help. EDIT: I know there's another option to turn the filters on a view-basis, but I want to have them on for all views. According to documentation, it should be enough to do only one of those: The default filter backends may be set globally, using the DEFAULT_FILTER_BACKENDS setting. or following: You can also set the filter backends on a per-view, or per-viewset basis From settings.py: REST_FRAMEWORK = { <snip> 'DEFAULT_FILTER_BACKENDS': ( 'django_filters.rest_framework.DjangoFilterBackend', ), Following content of pip freeze: (venv) mba15:server nir$ pip freeze | grep django django-allauth==0.28.0 django-celery==3.1.17 django-filter==0.15.3 django-registration-redux==1.4 django-rest-auth==0.8.2 djangorestframework==3.5.3 Continue reading...