Exemplar Workflow: Metric → Trace → Log Drill-down

Exemplar Workflow: Metric → Trace → Log Drill-down A workflow diagram generated by Archify. 01 / Grafana · Prometheus panel 02 / Tempo 03 / Loki Metric graph · p99 latency spike · Grafana · Prometheus panel Metric graph p99 latency spike Exemplar point · TraceID of one request · Grafana · Prometheus panel Exemplar point TraceID of one request Trace · Full request path · Tempo Trace Full request path Logs · Error message · Loki Logs Error message click hover marker Logs for this span Legend Metrics (Prometheus) Traces (Tempo) Drill-down pivot (Exemplar) Logs (Loki)

Viewing exemplars in Grafana

  • • Enable the Exemplars option on the time series panel
  • • Hover a diamond marker on the graph to see the traceId
  • • Click to navigate to the trace in Tempo

Verify ingestion, storage and links

  • • Check exemplar producer → exporter → storage
  • • Verify actual Prometheus/chart settings
  • • Match trace ID, datasource UID and retention