Get started with Grafana Metrics Drilldown

Use Grafana Metrics Drilldown to explore your metrics without writing a PromQL query. You can access the Grafana Metrics Drilldown app in Grafana Cloud or in self-mananged Grafana.

Before you begin

The Grafana Metrics Drilldown app is installed in both Grafana Cloud and self-managed Grafana by default.

To use Grafana Metrics Drilldown with Grafana Cloud, you need:

A Grafana Cloud account
A Grafana stack in Grafana Cloud with a configured Prometheus-compatible metrics data source

To use Grafana Metrics Drilldown with Grafana open source or Grafana Enterprise, you need:

Your own Grafana instance running Grafana version 11.6 or later
A configured Prometheus-compatible metrics data source

Access Grafana Metrics Drilldown

Access the Grafana Metrics Drilldown app either through the main page in Grafana or through a dashboard.

Access the app through the Grafana main page

Follow these steps to access the app through the Grafana main page.

From the Grafana left-side menu, select Drilldown.
The Drilldown page opens.
From the list of Drilldown apps, select Metrics.

The Grafana Metrics Drilldown app opens.

Access the app through a dashboard

Follow these steps to access the app through an existing metrics dashboard in Grafana.

Navigate to your dashboard in Grafana.
Select a time series panel.
Select the panel menu, and then select Metrics drilldown > Open in Grafana Metrics Drilldown.

The selected metric opens in the Metrics Drilldown app.