Metrics Explorer

The Metrics Explorer enables you to perform ad-hoc analysis of any ingested metric by charting the time series data for a selected range of time and dimension.

Let’s start by building a basic chart.

Build a metric chart

By default, the Metrics Explorer plots the metric over the preceding 1-hour interval.

1. Navigate to the Metrics Explorer by clicking the Metrics tab, and selecting Explorer:

2. The Metrics Explorer form appears.

3. Next to the first query, marked by , click the text field to select a metric from the drop-down.

4. The chart of the metric over the time period appears.

5. You can explore the chart by hovering your cursor over any part of the data plot.

Next steps

To enhance your understanding of the metric and the system behavior in general, see these sections next:

• Change metrics chart type
• Aggregating metrics
• Metrics Explorer functions
• Metrics time interval
• Metrics Explorer filters
• Metrics Explorer queries
• Metrics Explorer formulas
• Metrics alerts
• Use PromQL