Don't know TraceQL? Try [Grafana Traces Drilldown](ref:explore-traces-app), an intuitive, queryless app that lets you explore your tracing data using RED metrics.
- **Search** query builder - Provides a user interface for building a TraceQL query.
- **TraceQL** query editor - Lets you write your own TraceQL query with assistance from autocomplete.
- **Service Graph** view - Displays a visual relationship between services. Refer to the [Service graph](ref:service-graph) documentation for more information.
### Search query builder
The **Search** query builder provides drop-down lists and text fields to help you write a query.
The query builder is ideal for people who aren't familiar with or want to learn TraceQL.
Refer to the [Search using the TraceQL query builder documentation](traceql-search/) to learn more about creating queries using convenient drop-down menus.
To add TraceQL panels to your dashboard, refer to the [Traces panel documentation](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/panels-visualizations/visualizations/traces/).
The following options are available for the **Search** and **TraceQL** query types.
You can modify these settings in the **Options** section.
After changing any option, re-run the query to apply the updates.
Limit
: Determines the maximum number of traces to return. Default value is `20`.
Span Limit
: Sets the maximum number of spans to return for each spanset. Default value is `3`.
Table Format
: Determines whether the query results table is displayed focused on **Traces** or **Spans**. **Traces** is the default selection. When **Traces** is selected, the results table starts with the trace ID. When **Spans** is selected, the table starts with the trace service.
Step
: Defines the step for metrics queries. Use duration notation, for example, `30ms` or `1m`.
Streaming
: Indicates if streaming is active. Streaming lets you view partial query results before the entire query completes. Activating streaming adds the **Table - Streaming Progress** section to the query results.
## Use query types together
You can use **+ Add query** to create customized queries that use one or more of the query types together.
Each time you add a new query, it adds a new section, or query block, that contains **Search**, **TraceQL**, or **Service Graph** user interface.
The added query and results table appear in the navigation under **Queries** and **Tables** respectively.
You can use the navigation to view query, results table, and service graph blocks.
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To add a query block:
1. Select **+ Add query**.
1. Choose a query type: **Search**, **TraceQL**, or **Service Graph**.
To remove a query block, select the **Remove query** trash can icon.
To rename a block, select the **Rename** edit icon next to the query block name.
The name changes in the queries and table list.
### Additional query block options
Each query block has a set of icons in the right top corner.
: Lets you save the current query block as a recorded query. This option is available in Grafana Cloud and Grafana Enterprise. For more information, refer to [Recorded queries](ref:recorded-queries).
**Explore** provides a history of all queries you've used within a data source and an inspector that lets you view stats, inspect queries, view JSON, and general information for your data source queries.
For more information, refer to the [Query inspector in Explore](ref:query-inspector) and [Query management in Explore](ref:query-history-management) documentation.
Refer to [Set up a multi-stack Tempo data source in Grafana](https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/multi-stack-data-sources/#set-up-a-multi-stack-tempo-data-source-in-grafana) for information about configuring the Tempo data source.
For information about Tempo configuration requirements, refer to the [Cross-tenant query](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/<TEMPO_VERSION>/operations/cross_tenant_query/) and [Enable multitenancy](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/<TEMPO_VERSION>/operations/multitenancy/) documentation.
