Drill Down from Any Chart — Straight to the Data Behind It

When you spot something unusual in a chart — a sudden spike in a logs chart, a latency outlier, an error rate climbing on one service — the next question is always the same: which records actually caused this? Dash0 now gives you a direct way of answering this question. Select a time range or on a chart, click a pie segment, or click a stat value, and an action bar appears with Explore and Triage actions that take you straight into the matching signal explorer with filters and time scope already applied.

Select a time range on any chart and the drilldown action bar appears — Explore opens the matching signal explorer, Triage opens it in comparative analysis mode, with filters and time scope already applied.

What's New

Inline drilldown from any chart — Time-series, pie, gauge, stat, and tree-map charts now drill straight into the records behind them.
Searchable picker for multi-time-series charts — Charts with many series open a dialog with live counts of matching records per series and full keyboard navigation.
Per-(series × signal) drilldowns — Multi-series and multi-signal charts produce independent drilldowns, each scoped to its row's labels and its signal's filters.
Explore and Triage modes — Read records with Explore, or surface what differentiates them with Triage. Available for spans, logs, and web events.
Filter and time-range carry-over — Filters from PromQL and series labels and your selected time range follow you into the destination explorer with no manual setup.

For charts with many series, drilldown opens a searchable picker. Each row is its own drilldown, with live counts of matching spans, logs, and web events.

Why This Matters

Explore data behind a chart used to mean hopping between a dashboard, the spans explorer, the logs explorer, and a metric drilldown — copying filter values and time ranges across each step. Drilldown collapses that sequence into a single click. You can spot a misbehaving series, drill straight into its underlying data, and keep visual context throughout, without any manual filter setup.

Try It

Open any dashboard, select a time range on one of your charts, and pick Explore or Triage in the action bar. For pie, gauge, stat, and tree map panels, click a segment instead.

The Drill Down from Charts documentation covers every entry point per chart type, keyboard shortcuts, the Explore vs. Triage decision, and the filter translation rules.

Kudos Are Due

The logic to decide which telemetry is used in a PromQL query has been devised together with Julius Volz, one of the founders of Prometheus and the mind behind PromLabs. If you want to learn Prometheus, we cannot recommend the self-paced courses enough, they are effectively a rite of passage at Dash0.