Section 1 · Drilldown fundamentals

Why the Drilldown apps, and what this journey covers

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Investigate without writing queries

You need to dig into your metrics and logs, but writing PromQL and LogQL takes time to learn. The Grafana Drilldown apps let you investigate visually, by pointing and clicking, so you can find anomalies and patterns without writing a query.

What you’ll learn

Here’s what this journey covers:

  • What Metrics and Logs Drilldown are and the advantages they offer
  • How to navigate, filter, and visualize metrics with Grafana Metrics Drilldown
  • How to search and filter logs by fields and patterns with Grafana Logs Drilldown
  • How to act on a finding by adding it to a dashboard, creating an alert, or opening it in Explore

Journey duration

25-30 minutes