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I just found these links on another Q discussion. I have no clue but others think they are important.
BREAKING: DC DISTRICT COURT partially unsealed hundreds of indictments. Charges include bribery of public officials, conspiracy, public embezzlement, providing material support for terrorists, arms dealing, child sexual abuse, sexual exploitation of children
And here is a link from the above, a DC US Court pdf:
https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/Attachments.pdf

The PDF is a list complied of all the requests for pen register or trap and trace warrants filed over a six month period. Given the very precise 6-month dates involved (Oct 1 2017 to March 30, 2018) I would assume this is a regular report that is generated in six month increments.

It has approximately 3 warrants per page, and there are 139 pages, so approximately 420 warrants of this type were ordered. (Some are phones, some are for email).

All of the cases are now closed, so the warrants are being cleared.

You can try to look up the individual cases, but it's hard. They are in this format: 1:17-mc-02499- (that's the first one). The meaning of the format is explained here.The most meaningful part is the CV, CR, MC abbreviations. CR is for criminal, CV for civil, and MC for Miscellaneous Case (which are additional motions in cases, I believe, as explained here.).

It appears all pen trace ("wire tap") orders are issued as MC type.

So if what you are looking for is some confirmation of or details about the backlog of criminal cases that has been speculated about (ie: "45,000 sealed indictments") then the CR ones are the only ones that are really of interest. Civil cases far outnumber criminal cases in all lists I can find for DC Circuit court.

I found this page, for instance:

http://pacer-gov.blogspot.com/2018/06/district-of-columbia-recent-entries_23.html

Eventually you will have to login to get to details of things, and I lack the credentials for that. You can see some well known cases here though, like USA vs. Papadopolous.

In summary, the link provided shows only that there were about 420 wire tap requests filed with the DC District court in a six month period ending March 2018.