The value of log exploration with Elasticsearch

Traditional log analysis often requires switching between multiple tools or writing complex queries to find the information you need. This fragmented approach slows down troubleshooting and makes it harder to correlate events across your systems.

Grafana provides a unified interface to search, filter, and analyze Elasticsearch logs alongside your metrics and traces. By bringing all your observability data into a single platform, you can identify issues faster and perform root cause analysis more effectively.

Exploring Elasticsearch logs in Grafana provides the following advantages:

• Search and filter logs using intuitive Lucene query syntax directly in Grafana
• Correlate logs with metrics and traces in a single observability platform
• Visualize log patterns and trends over time with built-in time range controls
• Quickly identify errors and anomalies with automatic log level detection and color coding
• Save log queries to dashboards for ongoing monitoring and team collaboration

In the next milestone, you’ll navigate to the Explore interface where you’ll query your Elasticsearch logs.