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:
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:
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.
- Try correlation workflows. Refer to Workflows.
