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Grafana Tempo

Easy-to-operate, high-scale distributed tracing backend

Monitoring & Status ★ 5.4k stars Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Grafana Tempo is a high-scale distributed tracing backend that requires only object storage and integrates with Grafana, Loki, and Prometheus. It indexes only trace IDs to keep operation simple and cheap.

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Key features

  • Object-storage-only backend
  • Cheap large-scale tracing
  • Grafana integration
  • TraceQL query language

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Very cost-effective
  • Simple operations

Trade-offs

  • Best paired with Grafana stack
  • Limited standalone UI

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