Traces

The Traces tab embeds the Grafana Traces Drilldown app, pre-filtered to the selected service. It provides trace analysis capabilities including error breakdowns, root cause identification, and attribute-based exploration.

Pre-applied filters

The Traces tab automatically filters by:

resource.service.name: the service’s name
resource.service.namespace: the service’s namespace

You can add additional label filters.

Metric types

Select a metric type to focus your analysis:

Errors rate: view the rate of traces with errors over time.
Other available metric views depending on your data.

Visualizations

The Traces tab displays:

Time-series chart: the selected metric (for example, errors rate) plotted over time with a “Seeker” timeline for navigation.
Insights bar: highlights time periods with detected anomalies or elevated errors.
Side panels: count and latency metrics for quick reference.

Sub-tabs

Tab	Description
Breakdown	Break down traces by attributes to identify patterns.
Root cause errors	Identify the most common error sources and their attributes.
Comparison	Compare trace attributes across time periods.
Exceptions	View exception types and their frequency.
Errored traces	List individual traces that contain errors.

Attributes panel

The left panel shows trace attributes ordered by their contribution to the selected metric (for example, rate of errors per second). Use it to:

Browse attributes by category: Favorites, All, Resource, Span.
Select an attribute to break down the metric by its values.
Star frequently used attributes for quick access.

View modes

Switch between Single, Grid, and Rows layouts for attribute breakdowns.

Open in Traces Drilldown

Click Traces Drilldown in the top right to open the full Traces Drilldown app. For complete documentation, refer to Explore Traces.

Next steps

Use Root cause errors to identify which attributes are most associated with failures.
Add the service to RCA workbench for cross-service root cause analysis.