The Grafana Metrics Drilldown app is a plugin for Grafana that allows users to explore metrics data in a simplified, queryless way. It is designed to be used by technical and less-technical users alike who want to understand their metrics data without the burden of authoring complex PromQL queries.
- Visualizations: Whatever the metric type, the app will automatically select the most appropriate visualization.
- Drilldown: After selecting a metric, users can drill down into the metric's labels to understand the metric in more detail.
- Related signals: After selecting a metric, users can see related metrics and logs.
- Refinement: With tools like label filters, metric name search, and a suite of advanced filters in the sidebar (like prefix filters, suffix filters, and group by labels), users can reduce the "sea of metrics" to a manageable set of metrics panels, to more easily hone in on the metrics they are interested in.
- Simplicity: The app is designed to be simple and easy to use, while offering progressive disclosure of complexity and advanced features to users who require them.
- General purpose: Although the app is very capable in an Observability context, it is designed to be general purpose and can be used for any Prometheus-compatible metrics data source.
- Accessible: The app is designed to be accessible to all users, and to be able to be used by users with varying levels of technical expertise.
- Connectivity: The app does not exist in a silo. Users can navigate to Metrics Drilldown from a variety of different places in Grafana, and they can engage with other Grafana apps and features from within Metrics Drilldown.