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title: "Explore distributed traces in Grafana Cloud | Grafana Labs"
description: "Explore distributed traces in Grafana Cloud to verify Beyla is sending telemetry data."
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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).

# Explore distributed traces in Grafana Cloud

In this milestone, you explore your distributed traces in Grafana Cloud to confirm that Beyla is successfully sending telemetry data.

You’ll open Explore, select your traces data source, and run a broad trace search.

1. In Grafana Cloud, click **Explore** in the main menu.
   
   The Explore view opens.
2. From the data source dropdown list at the top left, select your traces data source.
   
   For example, select `grafanacloud-traces`.
3. Click **Run query**.
   
   A list of recent traces appears.
4. Click a Trace ID in the results list to open the trace view. A waterfall visualization appears, showing the timeline of spans within that trace.

You’ve confirmed that Beyla is sending traces to Grafana Cloud and that you can inspect them in Explore.

This visualization confirms that your application is fully instrumented and data is flowing correctly to Grafana Cloud.

In the next milestone, you complete your path.

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### Troubleshooting

Explore the following troubleshooting topics if you need help:

- [Unable to find traces](/docs/tempo/latest/troubleshooting/querying/unable-to-see-trace/)
- [Send data to the Grafana Cloud OTLP endpoint](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/otlp/send-data-otlp/)
- [Configure Beyla export data](/docs/beyla/latest/configure/export-data/)