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title: "Navigate to Explore | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to access the Explore interface and select your Elasticsearch data source."
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# Navigate to Explore

Explore is Grafana’s interface for ad-hoc querying and data investigation. Unlike dashboards, Explore is designed for interactive exploration where you can iterate quickly on queries without saving them. This makes it ideal for troubleshooting and investigating log data.

In this milestone, you’ll navigate to Explore and select your Elasticsearch data source to begin querying your logs.

To navigate to Explore and select your Elasticsearch data source, complete the following steps:

1. Sign in to your Grafana Cloud environment, for example `mystack.grafana.net`.
2. In the left navigation menu, click **Explore**.
3. In the data source dropdown at the top of the page, select your Elasticsearch data source.
   
   For example, select `elasticsearch-logs` or the name you configured for your Elasticsearch data source.
4. Verify that the query editor displays with Elasticsearch-specific options.

The Explore interface displays with your Elasticsearch data source selected and the query editor ready for input.

In the next milestone, you’ll select the Logs query type to focus on log data exploration.