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.
You’ll open Explore from the navigation menu, then choose your Elasticsearch data source.
In the left navigation menu, click Explore.
In the data source dropdown at the top of the page, select your Elasticsearch data source.
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.
More to explore (optional)
At this point in your journey, you can explore the following paths: