Explore

explore is a dedicated section in kloudmate where you can quickly query and visualize your observability data, without needing to create or save a dashboard first it’s ideal for ad hoc investigation, debugging, and building queries before committing them to a dashboard explore walkthrough navigate to explore open the explore section from the left hand navigation menu an empty, untitled panel will load and is ready for use immediately configure the visualization use the panel settings on the right hand side (or bottom on smaller screens) to control how results are displayed select the visualization type from the dropdown at the top (e g , timeseries, table, stat) the settings panel has two tabs general contains collapsible sections for configuring the panel’s appearance and behavior expand any section to adjust its settings as needed overrides allows you to apply field level customizations on top of the general settings add one or more field overrides using the add field override button, each targeting a specific series or field to override its display properties independently configure your data source and signal type at the top of the query editor, select your data source (e g , opentelemetry) and signal type (e g , metrics, logs, traces) using the dropdowns you can also set a query interval; this defaults to auto, which lets kloudmate determine the appropriate resolution automatically build your query in the query builder tab, type the name of the metric you want to explore select an aggregation function (e g , avg) from the dropdown next to the metric name click customize aggregation next to the aggregation function to access advanced aggregation controls see the metrics aggregations section for details use add filters to narrow results by specific attribute values use group by to break down the metric by a dimension such as k8s replicaset name use ranking to control how series are ordered (defaults to none) use legend format to customize how series labels appear in the visualization for users who prefer writing queries directly, switch to the promql tab to enter a raw promql expression add multiple queries and expressions use the add query button to layer multiple metric queries on the same panel use add expression to create derived values from your queries, including math expressions, reduce functions, and condition expressions refer to docid 6ugpkxobmned8soegnba3 for full expression syntax run your query click run query to execute and visualize the results in the panel above save to dashboard once your queries are ready, use the save to dashboard button (top right) to save the panel to an existing dashboard or create a new one saved dashboards are accessible from the dashboards section