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.

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.

More to explore (optional)

At this point in your journey, you can explore the following paths:

• Traces