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title: "Add Traces panel to dashboard | Grafana Labs"
description: "Learn how to add the Traces panel to a dashboard"
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# Add Traces panel to dashboard

Traces visualizations let you follow a request as it traverses the services in your infrastructure. The traces visualization displays traces data in a diagram that allows you to easily interpret it. Traces visualizations currently render one trace traversal based on the traceID used in TraceQL or using a variable.

To add a Traces panel, complete the following steps:

1. While viewing a dashboard in edit mode, click the **+** button in the sidebar, then click the **Panel** card to add a new panel.
2. On the new panel, enter a title and description, and click **Configure**.
3. Click the **Data source** drop-down and select the same traces data source you selected for the traces table.
4. From the visualization picker on the right, click **All visualizations** and select **Traces**.
5. In the query editor, click the **TraceQL** query type tab.
6. Enter `${traceId}` in the TraceQL query field to create a dashboard variable.
   
   This variable is used as the template query.
7. Under the **Panel options**, enter a **Title** for your trace panel.
8. Save the changes to the dashboard.
9. Click **Back to dashboard**.

In the next milestone, you’ll arrange the order of the panels in the dashboard and test it.

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### More to explore

- [Traces](/docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/panels-visualizations/visualizations/traces/)