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Section 3 · Logs Drilldown

Queryless interface for Loki logs

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What is Grafana Logs Drilldown?

Grafana Logs Drilldown visualizes Loki logs without writing LogQL. It is installed by default in Grafana and Grafana Cloud.

From the Grafana menu, select Drilldown > Logs. If you have more than one Loki data source, change Data source in the top toolbar. Logs Drilldown only supports Loki data sources.

Unless an administrator has set a custom default time range, the app opens on the last 15 minutes when the URL does not already set one. If a service shows no logs, widen the time picker.

How it works

The opening page lists services by log volume. Select Show logs on a service to open that service.

On the service page you can:

  • Read log lines on the Logs tab, and filter them by text or log level
  • Open the Labels, Fields, and Patterns tabs to see log volume for each one. Patterns are mined from the previous three hours of logs, and Loki extracts them when pattern ingestion is enabled
  • Open a panel menu and select Explore when you want the LogQL query for what you are looking at