New in Grafana 6.4: The Logs Panel

Grafana 6.4 introduces a new logs panel feature designed to help users visualize and correlate logs with other data in their dashboards, enhancing clarity on system operations. This feature allows system administrators and developers to quickly set up logs panels alongside existing dashboard panels, such as those tracking queries per second, to diagnose issues like internal server errors by reviewing related logs. Users can customize these panels by duplicating existing ones, modifying the data source to a logging database, and setting appropriate queries to retrieve relevant logs. Logs can be filtered based on various criteria like level or status, and annotations can be added for additional context. The logs panel aims to provide a more comprehensive view of application performance by integrating log data with other visualized metrics, thus improving monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities.