Visualize traces in a Grafana Cloud dashboard
Welcome to the Visualize traces in a Grafana Cloud dashboard learning journey.
Traces-based visualizations are a cornerstone of observability, providing a clear and actionable view of system performance. By transforming raw data into insightful visualizations, these dashboards enable you to quickly identify trends, detect anomalies, and make informed decisions to maintain system reliability and efficiency.
In this learning journey, you’ll learn how to create a traces visualization that helps you identify bottlenecks in your system.
The image below show a traces table at the top. When you select a trace ID, the detailed information about the trace span appears below the table.
Here’s what to expect
When you complete this journey, you’ll be able to:
- Understand the importance of visualizations in the field of observability
- Plan for your visualizations so that dashboards align with business objectives
- Use the Grafana query builder to write a TraceQL query
- Build a dashboard to display traces
Troubleshooting
If you get stuck, we’ve got your back! Where appropriate, troubleshooting information is just a click away.
More to explore
We understand you might want to explore other capabilities not strictly on this path. We’ll provide you opportunities where it makes sense.
Before you begin
Before you visualize traces in a Grafana Cloud dashboard, ensure that you have:
- A Grafana Cloud account. To create an account, refer to Grafana Cloud.
- Traces being sent to Grafana Cloud or you’ve connected to a traces data source.
- A Grafana Cloud user who has permission to create a dashboard and add a visualization.
- A familiarity with TraceQL.