What is Metrics Drilldown?

Grafana Metrics Drilldown is a queryless browsing experience for Prometheus-compatible metrics that lets you explore your metrics without writing PromQL.

How it works

Metrics Drilldown automatically indexes your metrics by labels and metadata, letting you:

See all available metrics
Narrow down by job, instance, namespace, etc.
See graphs without writing queries
Discover how metrics relate to each other

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Grafana Metrics Drilldown is a queryless browsing experience for Prometheus-compatible metrics. It’s designed for fast verification and investigation.

When metrics are accessible in Grafana, Metrics Drilldown automatically indexes them by their labels. You can browse through metric names, filter by label values, and see time series visualizations without writing a single line of PromQL.

The interface works like a file browser. You start broad and drill down into specifics. Click on a metric name, see what labels it has, filter by label values, and visualize the results.

This makes it ideal for verifying that metrics are being collected correctly, discovering what labels exist on your systems, and investigating unusual behavior when you don’t yet know what query to write.

What is Metrics Drilldown?

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