Tempo data source

Grafana ships with built-in support for Tempo, a high-volume, minimal-dependency trace storage, open source tracing solution from Grafana Labs. This topic explains configuration and queries specific to the Tempo data source.

For instructions on how to add a data source to Grafana, refer to the administration documentation. Only users with the organization administrator role can add data sources. Administrators can also configure the data source via YAML with Grafana’s provisioning system.

This video explains how to add data sources, including Loki, Tempo, and Mimir, to Grafana and Grafana Cloud. Tempo data source set up starts at 4:58 in the video.

Once you’ve added the data source, you can configure it so that your Grafana instance’s users can create queries in its query editor when they build dashboards and use Explore.

Configure the Tempo data source
Guide for configuring Tempo in Grafana
Best practices for tracing
Use best practices to plan how you implement tracing.
Query tracing data
Guide for using the Tempo data source's query editor
Upload a JSON trace file
Upload a JSON trace file to the Tempo data source
Service Graph and Service Graph view
Use the Service Graph and Service Graph view
Span filters
Use span filters to filter spans in the timeline viewer
Link to a trace ID
Link to trace IDs from logs and metrics