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description: Learn about how you can use tracing data in Grafana Cloud to query data,
  generate metrics, and link your tracing data with logs, metrics, and profiles.
keywords:
  - Grafana
  - traces
  - tracing
title: Use traces in Grafana
weight: 275
---

# Use traces in Grafana

Using traces, you can search for traces, generate metrics from spans, and link your tracing data with logs, metrics, and profiles.

This page provides a summary of how you can use tracing data in Grafana.

For general documentation on querying data sources in Grafana, refer to [Query and transform data](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/panels-visualizations/query-transform-data/).

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