Use Grafana Drilldown apps

Grafana Drilldown apps provide visual exploration for each telemetry signal. Each app offers a point-and-click interface optimized for its signal type. Use Drilldown apps to explore data without writing queries.

Grafana Cloud provides four Drilldown apps. Each Drilldown app is optimized for a specific telemetry signal and helps you find different insights in your data.

The following table shows each app and what insights it provides:

App	What it helps you find	Learn more
Grafana Metrics Drilldown	Resource monitoring, performance metrics, trends, and anomalies	Documentation
Grafana Logs Drilldown	Errors, log patterns, log volumes, and specific events	Documentation
Grafana Traces Drilldown	Latency patterns, errors, service dependencies, and slow requests	Documentation
Grafana Profiles Drilldown	Performance bottlenecks, resource consumption, and slow code paths	Documentation

For more information about telemetry signals, refer to What are telemetry signals?.

For detailed profiles analysis, refer to the following:

When to use Grafana Drilldown apps

Use Grafana Drilldown apps for the following use cases:

Visually exploring telemetry data.
Filtering and aggregating data without writing queries.
Investigating patterns and anomalies.
Starting to explore data immediately without learning query languages like PromQL, LogQL, or TraceQL.

Grafana Drilldown apps are separate from Explore and provide queryless experiences. To write custom queries, navigate to Explore directly from Drilldown. Drilldown apps and Explore are complementary tools. You can start in the Drilldown apps for quick discovery, then link to Explore when you need custom queries.

For precise filtering or complex aggregations, refer to Query your telemetry.

Access Grafana Drilldown apps

Access Grafana Drilldown apps from the Grafana Cloud navigation menu. Each app is available after you’ve configured the appropriate data source.

Each Drilldown app works with specific data sources. The following table shows the data source requirements:

Drilldown app	Required data source	Configuration requirements
Grafana Metrics Drilldown	Prometheus-compatible data source	None
Grafana Logs Drilldown	Loki data source (v3.2.0 or later, v3.5.0+ recommended)	`pattern_ingester.enabled: true`, `allow_structured_metadata: true`, `volume_enabled: true`
Grafana Traces Drilldown	Cloud Traces or Tempo data source (2.6 or later)	TraceQL metrics configured
Grafana Profiles Drilldown	Pyroscope data source	None

Grafana Cloud automatically provisions and configures these data sources for you. For more information about sending data and configuring data sources, refer to Instrument and send data and Connect to data sources.

Next steps

Use Grafana Assistant for natural language exploration. Refer to Using Grafana Assistant to explore telemetry.
Learn how to navigate between signals. Refer to Navigate between signals.
Try correlation workflows. Refer to Workflows.