Loki Datasource: Dashboard variable of type: Query has no Query-type: Query Result

[gelicia]

Discussed in #68516

^{Originally posted by samjewell May 16, 2023}
What happened:

I'm building a dashboard where I need to use the results of a Logs query as the input to a Metrics query.

Specifically there are Log-lines which identify which users are hitting a sad-path in the application. I need to join these results together with a dataset present in a metrics datasource. Unfortunately the metrics datasource is so large that I can only get results back by passing the user-ids as part of the query itself. Hence I need to know the user-ids before trying to render the panel, so I need to gather those IDs in a dashboard-variable (because these are evaluated first)

Prometheus datasource offers this option:

But Loki datasource doesn't:

And the data that I need isn't present in either "label names" or "label values"

What did you expect to happen:

Query-type: Query-result to be present in the dashboard-variables config for Loki

[svennergr]

Duplicate of #76612