Logs & traces

The Logs and Traces pages are built with Grafana Scenes, so they're live, interactive panels embedded right in the app.

Logs (Loki)

Link a Loki datasource to the cluster (Connections) and the Logs tab lights up:

• Namespace / pod / container selectors + a free-text filter.
• A logs panel and an error/warn log-rate timeseries.
• Inline pod logs: click any pod in Applications Overview to open its logs in a drawer — scoped to {namespace, pod} — without leaving the topology.

The free-text filter is sent as a backtick-delimited LogQL line filter, so quotes and special characters in your search don't break the query.

Traces (Tempo)

Link a Tempo datasource and the Traces tab gives you:

• A TraceQL search list (editable query, default {} for recent traces).
• A service graph (Tempo service map).

Correlation

Because logs, metrics and traces are all queried through the cluster's linked datasources, you can configure Grafana datasource correlations (Prometheus exemplars → Tempo, Tempo → Loki) to jump between pillars. KubeMeridian surfaces each pillar; the correlation links are standard Grafana datasource config.