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title: "Customize drilldown metrics | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Configure which metrics appear in your instance drilldown views"
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# Customize drilldown metrics

Customize which metrics appear when you view individual instances of a cloud provider service. You can select specific metrics, rename and reorder their panels, configure display units, update the legend, configure aggregation, update the existing query or add a custom query, and tailor the view for different instance types.

## Before you begin

- Ensure you have Cloud Provider plugin **Editor** permissions (AWS Editor, Azure Editor, or GCP Editor)
- Navigate to the Configure dashboards and view settings page for the service you want to customize

## Drilldown instance views

Drilldown instance views are the charts and graphs that appear when you click into a specific instance from the instances table for a service. For example, if you’re monitoring AWS EC2, each EC2 instance has its own drilldown view showing metrics like CPU utilization, disk operations, and network throughput.

Cloud Provider Observability offers drilldown instance views for the following cloud provider services:

- Amazon Web Services
  
  - AWS Bedrock AgentCore
  - AWS DynamoDB
  - AWS EC2
  - AWS ElastiCache
  - AWS Lambda
  - AWS RDS
  - AWS Route 53
  - AWS Route 53 Resolver
  - AWS S3
- Microsoft Azure
  
  - Azure Container Apps
  - Azure Database for MySQl - Flexible Server
  - Azure FrontDoor
  - Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Servers
  - Azure Virtual Machines
  - Azure Virtual Networks
- Google Cloud Platform
  
  - GCP AlloyDB
  - GCP Cloud SQL
  - GCP Compute Engine

## Customize metrics

To select which metrics to include in your drilldown instance views:

1. Navigate to the Configure dashboards and view settings page by clicking the **Configure** button for your service.
2. Scroll to the **Customize the panels that will be displayed in the drilldown instance view** section and click the toggle to enable editing. By default the current instance drilldown metrics are selected.
3. Deselect any metrics you want to remove from your drilldown view.
4. In the **Select metrics** area, use the search box to filter available metrics.
5. Select the boxes next to the metrics you want to include in your drilldown view.
6. Click the **Add custom query** button to add a custom query to the panels. After you click the button a **Custom Query** checkbox is selected in your list of metrics and a new custom query panel is added to the panels.

**Recommended metrics**: Metrics marked as “Recommended” are suggested based on common usage patterns for this service type. These metrics provide a good starting point for monitoring.

## Configure panels

After selecting your metrics, you can customize the following panel options:

- update panel titles and order
- edit custom queries
- include multiple queries
- add aggregation
- add legend labels
- select the units used

Each row represents a row in the instance drilldown dashboard, and two panels display on each row.

To customize the panels in your drilldown instance views:

01. In the **Select the order of the panels on the page** section, you’ll see your selected metrics organized into rows.
02. Each panel shows:
    
    - The panel title that you can edit.
    - A **Unit** dropdown where you can select the display unit (for example, Bytes, Percent (0-100))
    - A **Legend** text box where you can enter the legend label or template.
    - An **Aggregation** dropdown where you can select the aggregation.
    - A drag handle (≡) to reorder panels.
03. To update a panel title, click the edit icon and enter the new title.
04. To add an aggregation, click the **Aggregation** dropdown and select your preferred option.
05. To update the metrics labels, enter your preferred option into the **Legend** field. This field accepts templating formatting.
06. For Custom Query panels, edit the Query by entering the PromQL query into the Query text box. Click the **Test query in Explore button** to validate the query is accurate.
07. To combine queries, click and drag the handle for the query to move it to another panel and drop it.
08. To reorder panels, click and drag the handle to move a panel to a different position or row.
09. To change the unit, click the **Unit** dropdown and select your preferred option.
10. Click **Save** to apply your changes.

## Reset to default configuration

To restore the default metric configuration for a service:

1. On the Configure dashboards and view settings page, look for the **Reset** button in the drilldown metrics configuration section.
2. Click **Reset**.
3. Disable the **Customize the panels that will be displayed in the drilldown instance view** toggle.
4. Click **Save**.

Your custom metric selections, ordering, and unit configurations are replaced with the default settings.

> Caution
> 
> If the **Customize the panels that will be displayed in the drilldown instance view** toggle is enabled, the default metrics panels display as time series only. To get the statistics or tables included in the default instance page, you must click the **Reset** button, disable the toggle, and click **Save**.

## Customization scope

Drilldown metrics customizations are shared across your organization or stack. All users see the same configured metrics when viewing instance drilldown pages.

## Related topics

- [Configure dashboards and view settings](./configure-dashboards-view-settings/)
- [Customize service dashboards](./customize-service-dashboards/)
- [Drilldown metrics app](/docs/grafana/latest/visualizations/simplified-exploration/metrics/)