---
title: "How to explore metrics without PromQL queries"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-explore-metrics-without-promql-queries-1wnerqm10
source_url: https://grafana.com/blog/2024/05/14/how-to-explore-metrics-without-promql-queries-in-grafana/
type: article
source: "Grafana Labs"
published: 2024-05-14T17:05:44.094Z
updated: 2024-05-14T17:05:42.397Z
tags: ["data-visualization", "grafana", "prometheus"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 5
comments: 0
language: en
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# How to explore metrics without PromQL queries

**[Grafana Labs](https://daily.dev/sources/grafana)** · 3 min read · 5 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Grafana 11 introduces Explore Metrics, a queryless experience that allows users to effortlessly browse Prometheus-compatible metrics, identify anomalies, and uncover insights with just a few clicks. It eliminates the need to write queries in PromQL and provides features like metrics breakdown, intelligent visualization, related metrics, additional data in a drawer, and user step history.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://grafana.com/blog/2024/05/14/how-to-explore-metrics-without-promql-queries-in-grafana/>

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