diff --git a/pkg/services/navtree/navtreeimpl/applinks.go b/pkg/services/navtree/navtreeimpl/applinks.go
index ceb2e3c882b..8ac14a765fb 100644
--- a/pkg/services/navtree/navtreeimpl/applinks.go
+++ b/pkg/services/navtree/navtreeimpl/applinks.go
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@ func (s *ServiceImpl) readNavigationSettings() {
 		"grafana-app-observability-app":    {SectionID: navtree.NavIDRoot, SortWeight: navtree.WeightApplication, Text: "Application", Icon: "graph-bar"},
 		"grafana-pyroscope-app":            {SectionID: navtree.NavIDExplore, SortWeight: 1, Text: "Profiles"},
 		"grafana-lokiexplore-app":          {SectionID: navtree.NavIDExplore, SortWeight: 2, Text: "Logs"},
+		"grafana-exploretraces-app":        {SectionID: navtree.NavIDExplore, SortWeight: 3, Text: "Traces"},
 		"grafana-kowalski-app":             {SectionID: navtree.NavIDRoot, SortWeight: navtree.WeightFrontend, Text: "Frontend", Icon: "frontend-observability"},
 		"grafana-synthetic-monitoring-app": {SectionID: navtree.NavIDTestingAndSynthetics, SortWeight: 2, Text: "Synthetics"},
 		"grafana-oncall-app":               {SectionID: navtree.NavIDAlertsAndIncidents, SortWeight: 1, Text: "OnCall"},