Traces Drilldown
Distributed traces provide a way to monitor applications by tracking requests across services. Traces record the details of a request to help understand why an issue is or was happening.Grafana Traces Drilldown helps you visualize insights from your Tempo traces data. Using the app, you can:
- Use Rate, Errors, and Duration (RED) metrics derived from traces to investigate issues
- Uncover related issues and monitor changes over time
- Browse automatic visualizations of your data based on its characteristics
- Do all of this without writing TraceQL queries
Grafana Learning Journeys provide a clear, structured path that leads you from beginner concepts to advanced use cases. Learn about this Grafana feature on Explore traces using Traces Drilldown.
To learn more, read:
- From multi-line queries to no-code investigations: meeting Grafana users where they are
- A queryless experience for exploring metrics, logs, traces, and profiles: Introducing the Explore apps suite for Grafana.
With Grafana Play, you can explore and see how it works, learning from practical examples to accelerate your development. This feature can be seen on Grafana Traces Drilldown.
Who is Grafana Traces Drilldown for?
Grafana Traces Drilldown is for engineers of all levels of operational expertise. You no longer need to be an SRE wizard to get value from your traces.
Traditionally, you’d need a deep understanding of your systems and the tracing query language, TraceQL, to get the most out of your tracing data.
With Grafana Traces Drilldown, you get the same powerful insights, by just viewing and clicking in visualizations which are automatically generated from your tracing data.
