---
title: Tracing drilldown
description: The Tracing Drilldown opens when you select a trace or span in Explore. It brings together visualization, metadata, and correlated telemetry in one view.
url: https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/data_exploration/spans/span-drilldown/
product: data-exploration
feature: Span Drilldown
feature_id: spans-explorer-drilldown
feature_identifier: data-exploration/spans-explorer-drilldown
last_updated: '2026-11-09'
---

# Investigate with the tracing drilldown

When you select a trace or span in Explore, the drilldown opens alongside the list view. Use it to validate your findings and gather context without leaving Explore spans.

The tracing drilldown has three main areas:

* **Visualize Spans and Traces**: Visualize the selected trace as a Gantt Chart, Flame Graph, or Service Dependency View. Switch between views to understand execution structure, timing, and service interactions. [Learn more](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/data_exploration/spans/visualize.md)

* **Span Fields and Attributes**: The **Info Panel** displays fields, tags, and metadata for the selected span or trace. Use the built-in span duration distribution heatmap to compare the span's performance against similar spans in the same time range. [Learn more](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/data_exploration/spans/info_panel.md)

* **Span Related Data**: Surface correlated telemetry for the selected span or trace, including logs, infrastructure context, profiling data, events, and AI insights. [Learn more](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/data_exploration/spans/related_data.md)

**Headers and Quick Actions** appear at the top of the tracing drilldown and surface key context at a glance, service, operation, status, duration, and percentile. Use header menus to pivot to correlated logs, APM service context, or profiles, or to refine your active query. [Learn more](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/data_exploration/spans/headers_actions.md)

## Additional resources

![Mastering the Trace Drilldown: How to Reduce MTTR with Coralogix](https://img.youtube.com/vi/3nfnyexFstc/mqdefault.jpg)

Mastering the tracing drilldown

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| Blog | [From trace to root cause: mastering the new trace drilldown](https://coralogix.com/blog/from-trace-to-root-cause-mastering-the-new-trace-drilldown/) |

## Next steps

Explore the Dependencies, Flame, and Gantt visualization modes in [Visualize spans and traces](https://coralogix.com/docs/user-guides/data_exploration/spans/visualize.md).