Use a Spans Table panel to show individual spans alongside your dashboard charts. Click a row to open that span in the Trace Explorer with the panel's filters and columns carried over.

Kind: SpanTable

Configure the table

When adding a panel, select the Spans Table visualization. In its query editor, set span filters and choose the columns to display. You can add span or resource attributes as columns, reorder columns, and show inline attribute previews. Use variable bindings to scope the table with dashboard selections.

In the panel settings, choose the sort field and direction and set the maximum number of spans to retrieve, from 1 to 1,000. Save the panel and dashboard to keep the configuration. For example, filter on service.name to list one service's spans and add http.response.status_code as a column to compare responses without leaving the dashboard.

Spec properties

The spec object accepts the following properties. Filters select spans, not aggregated metric series.

Property	Type	Required	Description
`showAttributePreview`	`boolean`	No	Show inline span attributes.
`filters`	`array`	No	Span filter criteria.
`activeColumns`	`array` of `object`	No	Ordered columns. Each object has a required attribute `key`, an optional `label`, and an optional `colSize` string.
`maxSpans`	`integer`	No	Maximum spans to retrieve, from 1 to 1,000.
`sort`	`object`	No	`sortField` selects a supported span sort field; `sortDirection` is `asc` or `desc`.
`variables`	`array`	No	Dashboard variable bindings for the span query.
`dash0Extensions`	`object`	No	Panel extensions, including optional `loadingErrorMessage` and `noDataMessage` strings.

For the surrounding panel structure, see Chart Type Format. To investigate a row after opening it, see Inspect Span Details and Visualize the Full Trace.