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The best way to see what Grafana Logs Drilldown can do for you is to use it to explore your own log data. If you have a Grafana Cloud account, you can access Grafana Logs Drilldown by selecting Drilldown > Logs, or you can install Grafana Logs Drilldown in your own Grafana instance.

Guided tour

We will walk through a simple step-by-step guided tour of Grafana Logs Drilldown.

While you are browsing your log data in Grafana Logs Drilldown, watch for any unexpected spikes in your logs. Or perhaps one of your services is down and has stopped logging. Maybe you’re seeing an increase in errors after a recent release.

Grafana Logs Drilldown Service overview page — Overview page

To take a tour of Grafana Logs Drilldown, follow these steps:

Open your Grafana stack in a web browser.
From the Grafana main menu, select Drilldown > Logs. This opens the Overview page showing time series and log visualizations for all the services in your selected Loki instance. ( No services?)
If you have multiple Loki data sources, you can change your Data source from the menu on the top left. Note that Logs Drilldown only supports Loki data sources.
Select a recent time range. You can modify your time range in two ways:
- With the standard time range picker on the top right.
- By clicking and dragging the time range on any time series visualization.
Services are shown based on the volume of logs, or you can use the Search Services field to search for the service by name.
If you want to view services by label instead of by service name, click (+) Add label and either select a label from the menu or search for a label.
To explore logs for a service, click the Show logs button on the service graph. Grafana displays the Logs tab of the service details page.
On the service details page, click the Labels tab to see visualizations of the log volume for each label. ( No labels?)
On the Labels tab, to select a label to see the log volume for each value of that label, click the Select button. Grafana Logs Drilldown shows you the volume of logs with specific labels and fields. Learn more about Labels and Fields.
Select the Fields tab to see visualizations of the log volume for each field. To drill down into the details in the same way as labels, click the Select button for one of the fields.
Click the Patterns tab to see the log volume for each automatically detected pattern. Log patterns let you work with groups of similar log lines. You can hide log patterns that are noisy, or focus only on the patterns that are most useful. Learn more about Log Patterns.