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title: "Investigate without writing queries | Grafana Labs"
description: "Why the Drilldown apps, and what this journey covers"
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

# Investigate without writing queries

You need to dig into your metrics and logs, but writing PromQL and LogQL takes time to learn. The Grafana Drilldown apps let you investigate visually, by pointing and clicking, so you can find anomalies and patterns without writing a query.

## What you’ll learn

Here’s what this journey covers:

- **What Metrics Drilldown and Logs Drilldown are**, and what you can do in each one
- **How to filter and visualize metrics** with Grafana Metrics Drilldown
- **How to filter logs** by labels, fields, and text with Grafana Logs Drilldown
- **How to continue a finding** in Explore. In Metrics Drilldown you can also copy the page URL or bookmark the view. In Logs Drilldown you can add a panel to a dashboard or create an alert when those actions are shown

## Journey duration

25-30 minutes