Grafana Campfire - Using the Drilldown Apps (Grafana Community Call - August 2025)
In this Campfire Community call, we will discuss about the new Grafana Drilldown Apps and how they differ from Explore. We will discuss how it has been continuously evolving to become a core part of Grafana OSS, enabling users to access data easily. We will talk about the following topics:
- What's new in the Drilldown in recent versions
- How to use it with OpenTelemetry
- How to use it with Explore
- and much more.....
Ask your questions (level basic to advanced or feature requests) in our Community forum post:
https://community.grafana.com/t/grafana-campfire-fire-using-the-drilldown-apps-grafana-community-call-august-2025/156247
OR
Feel free to use the YouTube live chat feature 📝 to start submitting questions, and we will add them to the agenda.
Join me (Usman), Matt Ryer, Carl Bergquist, and David Kaltschmidt for this exciting session.
Expert guests: Andrew Stucky, Galen Kistler and Matt Ryer
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00:00 Introductions
04:28 Before Drilldown Apps
07:24 DrillDown Apps Demo
13:10 How to find DrillDown Apps in Grafana
15:11 Patterns
18:42 Advantage of DrillDown Apps
19:43 DrillDown for Logs and Traces
20:03 DrillDown for Metrics
21:28 New Features
24:25 Primary Signals
28:08 Histogram Integration
30:17 Explore vs DrillDown
34:52 Whats new in Metrics DrillDown
37:50 Metrics Related Logs
39:35 Whats new in Logs DrillDown
40:50 New Logs JSON Panel
46:36 Logs - Field name view
48:35 Whats new in Traces DrillDown
54:15 Whats new in Profiles DrillDown
56:09 Question: Whats the key difference between Drilldown Apps and Explore and any tips for using Drilldowns with OpenTelemetry?