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Docs: Clean up Explore documentation (#64908)

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* Remove the info about custom Prometheus Query Editor as it's not relevant since #60020

* Update basic Explore documentation

* Change graphs and tables to visualizations as Explore supports different types of visualization

* Make clear "Starred" refers to a tab

* Update how to select start/end date for query history

* Remove Prometheus specific section as it's no longer relevant. Prometheus query editor is documented in https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/prometheus/query-editor/#metrics-browser

* Add informational log level (added in #30942)

* Use more direct language

* Fix a link

* Make headers more consistent

* Minor tweaks

* Update docs/sources/explore/explore-inspector.md

Co-authored-by: Eve Meelan <81647476+Eve832@users.noreply.github.com>

* Do not enumerate bullet points

* Fix incorrect header type

* Update tracing headers

* Link to more info about Mixed data source

* Use "data source" instead of "datasource"

* Fix tracing headers

* Fix more log headers

* Update docs/sources/explore/explore-inspector.md

Co-authored-by: J Stickler <julie.stickler@grafana.com>

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Co-authored-by: Eve Meelan <81647476+Eve832@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: J Stickler <julie.stickler@grafana.com>
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Piotr Jamróz
2023-03-28 21:53:17 +02:00
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@@ -20,9 +20,9 @@ Supported data sources are:
For information on how to configure queries for the data sources listed above, refer to the documentation for specific data source.
## Trace View explanation
## Trace View
This section explains the elements of the Trace View dashboard.
This section explains the elements of the Trace View.
{{< figure src="/static/img/docs/explore/explore-trace-view-full-8-0.png" class="docs-image--no-shadow" max-width= "900px" caption="Screenshot of the trace view" >}}
@@ -63,12 +63,6 @@ Clicking anywhere on the span row shows span details.
- Process metadata: Metadata about the process that logged this span.
- Logs: List of logs logged by this span and associated key values. In case of Zipkin logs section shows Zipkin annotations.
### Node graph
You can optionally expand the node graph for the displayed trace. Depending on the data source, this can show spans of the trace as nodes in the graph, or as some additional context like service graph based on the current trace.
![Node graph](/static/img/docs/explore/explore-trace-view-node-graph-8-0.png 'Node graph')
### Trace to logs
> **Note:** Available in Grafana 7.4 and later versions.
@@ -79,9 +73,15 @@ You can navigate from a span in a trace view directly to logs relevant for that
Click the document icon to open a split view in Explore with the configured data source and query relevant logs for the span.
## Service Graph view
## Node Graph
The Service Graph view visualizes the span metrics (traces data for rates, error rates, and durations (RED)) and service graphs.
You can optionally expand the node graph for the displayed trace. Depending on the data source, this can show spans of the trace as nodes in the graph, or as some additional context like service graph based on the current trace.
![Node graph](/static/img/docs/explore/explore-trace-view-node-graph-8-0.png 'Node graph')
## Service Graph
The Service Graph visualizes the span metrics (traces data for rates, error rates, and durations (RED)) and service graphs.
Once the requirements are set up, this pre-configured view is immediately available.
For more information, refer to the [Service Graph view table section](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/tempo/#service-graph-view-table) of the Tempo data source page and the [service graph view page](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/metrics-generator/service-graph-view/) in the Tempo documentation.