Logs

The Logs tab embeds the Grafana Logs Drilldown app, pre-filtered to the selected service. It provides full log exploration capabilities without leaving the service context.

Pre-applied filters

The Logs tab automatically filters by:

service_namespace: the service’s namespace
service_name: the service’s name

These filters are derived from the service’s OTel resource attributes.

Explore logs

The Logs Drilldown provides:

Log levels: filter by severity (error, warning, info, debug).
Fields: filter by structured log fields.
Line filter: search for specific strings or patterns in log content.
Patterns: automatically detected log patterns for grouping similar entries.

Sub-tabs

Tab	Description
Logs	The raw log entries matching your filters.
Labels	Available label values for the filtered logs.
Fields	Structured fields extracted from log entries.
Patterns	Automatically detected patterns grouping similar log lines.

Log volume

The Log volume panel shows the rate of log entries over time, helping identify spikes in logging activity that may correlate with issues.

Open in Logs Drilldown

Click Logs Drilldown in the top right to open the full Logs Drilldown app with the current filters preserved. For complete Logs Drilldown documentation, refer to Explore Logs.

Next steps

Correlate log spikes with Traces to find the requests that generated errors.
Check Service overview to see if log volume correlates with latency or error ratio changes.