So in terms of problematic exemplars there’s a couple of things to be said:
- Metrics (as in some series of (ts, value) pairs) are not de-aggregatable. This is a design limitation, since it would be prohibitively expensive to store them that way.
- The answer is usually sampling - Prometheus has exemplars, which have some support in Grafana 7.4.
- In terms of links, Grafana has support for data links (https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/linking/data-links/).
Here’s a blog post that might be relevant - https://grafana.com/blog/2020/11/09/trace-discovery-in-grafana-tempo-using-prometheus-exemplars-loki-2.0-queries-and-more/.