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Journey overview

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

Script

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

In this journey, you’ll learn what Metrics and Logs Drilldown are and the advantages they offer. You’ll navigate, filter, and visualize metrics with Grafana Metrics Drilldown, and search and filter logs with Grafana Logs Drilldown. And you’ll learn how to act on a finding by adding it to a dashboard, creating an alert, or opening it in Explore.

The journey takes about 25 to 30 minutes.