Grafana Tempo - Distributed Tracing Backend

Grafana Tempo is an open-source, high-scale distributed tracing backend. It is:

Cost-efficient

only requires object storage (S3, GCS, Azure) to operate

Deeply integrated

with Grafana, Mimir, Prometheus, Loki, and Pyroscope

Protocol-agnostic

accepts OTLP, Jaeger, Zipkin, OpenCensus, Kafka Quick Reference Links TraceQL Language Reference - query syntax, operators, examples, metrics functions Configuration Reference - all YAML config blocks with defaults Architecture and Operations - components, deployment, tuning Metrics from Traces - span metrics, service graphs, TraceQL metrics API Reference - HTTP endpoints, ingestion, search, metrics queries What is Distributed Tracing? Show more