Plugins 〉Explore Logs
Explore Logs
Explore Logs
Explore Logs offers a query-less experience for browsing Loki logs without the need for writing complex queries. Discover or narrow down your search using by volume and text patterns. Uncover related logs and understand patterns—all with just a few clicks.
Requirements
Requires Grafana 11.3.0 or newer.
Getting Started
See the getting started for more info using Explore Logs. For instructions installing, see the access and installation instructions
Documentation
Contributing
We love accepting contributions! If your change is minor, please feel free submit a pull request. If your change is larger, or adds a feature, please file an issue beforehand so that we can discuss the change. You're welcome to file an implementation pull request immediately as well, although we generally lean towards discussing the change and then reviewing the implementation separately.
Bugs
If your issue is a bug, please open one here.
Changes
We do not have a formal proposal process for changes or feature requests. If you have a change you would like to see in Explore Logs, please file an issue with the necessary details.
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
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- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Grafana Cloud Free
- Free tier: Limited to 3 users
- Paid plans: $55 / user / month above included usage
- Access to all Enterprise Plugins
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Self-hosted Grafana Enterprise
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- All Grafana Enterprise features
- Self-manage on your own infrastructure
Installing Explore Logs on Grafana Cloud:
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.
Installing on a local Grafana:
For local instances, plugins are installed and updated via a simple CLI command. Plugins are not updated automatically, however you will be notified when updates are available right within your Grafana.
1. Install the Application
Use the grafana-cli tool to install Explore Logs from the commandline:
grafana-cli plugins install The plugin will be installed into your grafana plugins directory; the default is /var/lib/grafana/plugins. More information on the cli tool.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file for your architecture below and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
2. Enable it
Next, log into your Grafana instance. Navigate to the Plugins section, found in your Grafana main menu.
Click the Apps tabs in the Plugins section and select the newly installed app.
To enable the app, click the Config tab. Follow the instructions provided with the application and click Enable. The app and any new UI pages are now accessible from within the main menu, as designed by the app creator.
If dashboards have been included with the application, they will attempt to be automatically installed. To view the dashboards, re-import or delete individual dashboards, click the Dashboards tab within the app page.
Changelog
View releases on GitHub for up-to-date changelog information.
1.0.0
What's Changed
- fix(shardQuerySplitting): do not emit empty data by @matyax in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/793
- removed preview warning and updated some copy (added link to support) by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/792
- Frontend instrumentation by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/790
- Aggregated metrics: Use sum_over_time query for aggregated metric queries by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/789
- fix: fall back to mixed parser if the field is missing parser in url parameter by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/788
- Update workflows to use actions that don't need organization secrets by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/784
- label values: fix label values stuck in loading state by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/783
- Shard query splitting: send the whole stream selector to fetch shard values by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/782
- chore(shardQuerySplitting): start in Streaming state by @BitDesert in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/781
- fix(patterns-breakdown): fix expression to create pattern key breakdown by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/780
- fix(service-selection-scrolling): remove forced overflow scroll by @matyax in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/779
- GA: remove preview badge by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/778
- GA: Remove preview copy in intercept banner by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/777
0.1.4
What's Changed
- Fields: include and exclude empty values by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/703
- Update
make docsprocedure by @github-actions in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/716 - Displayed fields: persist selection in local storage and URL by @matyax in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/733
- Sync loki versions in docker-compose.dev.yaml by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/745
- fix: grafana image tag by @BitDesert in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/743
- generator: add new service with mix of json and logfmt by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/749
- Logs Volume Panel: properly handle "logs" detected level by @matyax in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/751
- feat(detected-fields): use
/detected_fieldsAPI by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/736 - enable sharding in docker containers by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/754
- Line filter: Case sensitive search by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/744
- Shard query splitting: Split queries by stream shards by @matyax in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/715
- chore: replace react-beautiful-dnd with successor by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/579
- Service selection: show previous filter text in service search input by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/763
- feat(generator): log
traceIDas structured metadata by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/766 - Labels: Fix labels list not updating when detected_labels loads while user is viewing another tab by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/757
- Fields: Fix incorrect field count by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/761
- Link extensions: fix services with slash by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/770
New Contributors
- @moxious made their first contribution in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/673
- @github-actions made their first contribution in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/716
- @BitDesert made their first contribution in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/743
0.1.3
What's Changed
- added better hero image by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/598
- Updated plugin links to docs by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/599
- docs: Copyedit for style and docs standards by @JStickler in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/582
- docs: embedded video by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/601
- docs: Fix heading levels by @JStickler in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/602
- Docs update docs link by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/603
- docs: better sentence by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/604
- feat(log-context): add LogContext to logspanel by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/607
- docs: more standardization edits by @JStickler in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/605
- chore(main-release): bump patch version before doing a main build by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/612
- docs: Update metadata with canonical URLs by @JStickler in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/610
- Release 0.1.1 by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/613
- chore: do not run release if triggered from drone by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/615
- added a note about ephemeral patterns by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/619
- Value breakdowns: maintain filters between value changes by @matyax in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/609
- Sorting: memoize sorting function by @matyax in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/584
- Fields: fix loading forever when fields return empty by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/620
- Patterns: Show UI message when time range is too old to show patterns by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/618
- Chore: Clean up subscriptions by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/624
- Label queries: remove unneccessary filters and parsers in query expression by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/628
- Service views: Prevent extra queries by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/629
New Contributors
- @moxious made their first contribution in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/673
0.1.2
What's Changed
- added better hero image by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/598
- Updated plugin links to docs by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/599
- docs: Copyedit for style and docs standards by @JStickler in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/582
- docs: embedded video by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/601
- docs: Fix heading levels by @JStickler in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/602
- Docs update docs link by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/603
- docs: better sentence by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/604
- feat(log-context): add LogContext to logspanel by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/607
- docs: more standardization edits by @JStickler in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/605
- chore(main-release): bump patch version before doing a main build by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/612
- docs: Update metadata with canonical URLs by @JStickler in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/610
- Release 0.1.1 by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/613
- chore: do not run release if triggered from drone by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/615
- added a note about ephemeral patterns by @matryer in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/619
- Value breakdowns: maintain filters between value changes by @matyax in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/609
- Sorting: memoize sorting function by @matyax in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/584
- Fields: fix loading forever when fields return empty by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/620
- Patterns: Show UI message when time range is too old to show patterns by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/618
- Chore: Clean up subscriptions by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/624
- Label queries: remove unneccessary filters and parsers in query expression by @svennergr in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/628
- Service views: Prevent extra queries by @gtk-grafana in https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/pull/629
Full Changelog: https://github.com/grafana/explore-logs/compare/v0.1.1...v0.1.2
0.1.1
- feat(log-context): add LogContext to logspanel #607
0.1.0
- Release public preview version.
