Section 1 · Drilldown fundamentals

What you need to complete this journey

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Prerequisites

You can use the Drilldown apps in Grafana Cloud or in self-managed Grafana. Metrics Drilldown is installed by default in Grafana Cloud and in self-managed Grafana. Logs Drilldown is installed by default in Grafana and Grafana Cloud. If you are upgrading an older Grafana installation, you might need to install Logs Drilldown yourself.

Every Drilldown app requires the datasources:explore permission.

Data you need

SignalWhat you need
MetricsA Prometheus or Prometheus-compatible data source. Self-managed Grafana must be version 11.6 or later, and the data source scrape interval must match your metrics system’s scrape interval.
LogsA Loki data source. Logs Drilldown is installed by default in Grafana and Grafana Cloud. When you enable it in the Loki configuration on self-managed Grafana, the access page requires Grafana 13.1.0 or later and Loki 3.2.0 or later, plus pattern ingestion, structured metadata, the volume endpoint, and log level detection.

Don’t have data yet?

Try the apps on Grafana Play, or use one of these journeys to get data into Grafana, then come back.