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title: "Resources | Grafana Labs"
description: "Where to go next, investigate your own traces, get traces flowing, or build trace dashboards, plus docs and community."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Resources

You can read a trace on your own. Where you go from here depends on what you want to do with that skill.

## Continue learning

Pick the path that matches your goal:

- [Use Traces Drilldown to identify high latency service requests](/docs/learning-paths/drilldown-traces/): Put trace reading to work investigating your own traces in Grafana Cloud.
- [Send traces to Grafana Cloud using Alloy](/docs/learning-paths/send-traces-alloy/): Get your own traces flowing, from instrumenting your application to sending spans with Alloy.
- [Visualize traces in a Grafana Cloud dashboard](/docs/learning-paths/visualization-traces/): Build dashboards from your traces and start writing TraceQL.

## Documentation

- [Introduction to tracing](/docs/tempo/latest/introduction/): Revisit traces, spans, and the pipeline.
- [Trace structure](/docs/tempo/latest/introduction/trace-structure/): A closer look at spans, nesting, and attributes.
- [Traces Drilldown](/docs/grafana-cloud/telemetry-signals/query-visualize-data/drilldown/): The queryless way to explore your traces.
- [TraceQL cookbook](/docs/grafana-cloud/observe-and-act/send-data/traces/traces-query-editor/traceql-cookbook/): Ready-to-use TraceQL query examples for when you’re ready for precision.

## Community

- [Grafana Community Forums](https://community.grafana.com/): Ask questions and share what you’re building.
- [Grafana Slack](https://slack.grafana.com/): Join the conversation with other Grafana users.