diff --git a/src/index.html b/src/index.html
index 9284de8..f27ba79 100644
--- a/src/index.html
+++ b/src/index.html
@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@
   .ff.custom { display: none; }
   .ff.custom.show { display: flex; }
   .x-filters { display: flex; gap: 14px; align-items: flex-end; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-bottom: 14px; }
+  /* Data-freshness readout: wraps to its own full-width line under the filter row, right-aligned. */
+  .x-fresh { flex-basis: 100%; text-align: right; font-size: 11px; color: var(--muted); margin-top: 2px; }
 
   /* ── Content grid ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── */
   main { padding: 16px 18px 40px; display: grid; gap: 16px; grid-template-columns: repeat(12, 1fr); }
@@ -474,6 +476,7 @@
         <div class="ff custom" id="tk-x-ff-start"><label for="tk-x-start">Start</label><input type="date" id="tk-x-start"></div>
         <div class="ff custom" id="tk-x-ff-end"><label for="tk-x-end">End</label><input type="date" id="tk-x-end"></div>
         <button class="btn" id="tk-x-search" type="button">Search</button>
+        <div class="x-fresh" id="tk-x-fresh"></div>
       </div>
       <div class="tbl-scroll" id="tk-x-wrap"><div class="empty">Search by ticket id, engineer, cluster, state and time.</div></div>
     </div>
@@ -1218,8 +1221,13 @@ function renderIncMetrics(m, freshness) {
     `<div class="metric"><b>${num(cr.per_day_avg, 1)}</b><span class="lbl">Closures / day</span></div>`,
   ];
   $('tk-metrics').innerHTML = tiles.join('');
-  const fr = freshness && freshness.inc;
+  // Freshness is per-dataset — show the ACTIVE dataset's last ingest (was hardcoded to inc).
+  const fr = freshness && freshness[DS];
   $('tk-fresh').textContent = fr ? `updated ${eatShort(fr.ingested_at)} · ${intg(fr.records_ingested)} records` : '';
+  // Mirror it in the ticket-explorer filter bar (below the Time field) so freshness is
+  // visible while searching, for both INC and CRQ.
+  const xf = $('tk-x-fresh');
+  if (xf) xf.textContent = fr ? `Last updated ${eatShort(fr.ingested_at)} EAT` : '';
 }
 
 // ── Ticket explorer (search) — GET /webhook/inc-search ──────────────────────