Logs

The logs in your Grafana dashboard are enriched with a wide array of labels. These labels provide crucial context for each log entry, allowing for advanced filtering, sorting, and troubleshooting.

How to Work with the Log Viewer

The Logs dashboard gives you access to the webserver access logs for your projects, letting you search and filter through them to find the exact requests you're interested in.

Step 1: Select a Project and Time Range

Start by selecting the project and time range you want to investigate. If you've arrived here from a metrics or traces dashboard via drilldown, this will already be set for you.

Step 2: Search and Filter Logs

Use the label filters or free-text search to narrow down the log lines. For example, you can filter to a specific http_response_status_code, or search for a particular URL or IP address, to quickly find the requests that matter.

Step 3: Correlate with Traces

Log lines for requests that were traced include a trace_id. Clicking on a log line lets you jump directly to the corresponding trace, so you can see the full request across all the services it touched.

By combining filtering with this drilldown, you can move quickly from a broad search to the exact log entry, and beyond it to the trace, that explains what happened.