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Release date: 2025-07-02

Traces Drilldown now available in Asserts

The Drilldown Apps are going places! We’re ensuring our opinionated experiences can benefit from our best-of-breed signal exploration workflows by making them embeddable in other contexts. Our first milestone is the integration of Traces Drilldown in the Asserts KPI drawer.

Thanks to Drilldown, you can now spot which dimensions are misbehaving – easily – no more wading through endless trace lists or wrestling with queries. That means dramatically faster MTTR when you need traces to pinpoint root causes!

What’s new?

Now, instead of being greeted with a bare list of traces and a daunting query interface, you get the full Traces Drilldown experience right inside Asserts without jumping between tools or writing a query. Plus, Traces Drilldown automatically inherits the added context that Asserts provides, including pre-selected filters and tabs, so you dive straight into the data that matters.

You can quickly choose your metric, compare trends between attributes, and pick the traces you want to analyze directly within the Asserts application. When you drill into an individual trace, it now expands to the full pane, making the most of your available screen real estate.

Traces Drilldown in Asserts

One more thing: linkable attributes

To create a fully connected experience, we’ve added hooks to log labels and trace attributes so you can jump directly to richer Grafana Cloud solutions in the context of the signals you were exploring. These prefabricated shortcuts can take you straight into Application Observability – our first integration – from logs to a specific pod in Kubernetes monitoring, or from a trace to a specific query in Database Observability.

Traces Drilldown in Asserts


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