Higher reliability for Grafana Cloud Traces with new limits on attribute size

Grafana Cloud Traces introduces a new safeguard to help maintain stability and prevent out-of-memory crashes when fetching traces that contain large span attributes. With this change, attributes exceeding 2KB (2048 bytes) are automatically truncated before they’re stored, striking a balance between preserving valuable trace data and maintaining overall system stability.

And if you’re using Grafana Tempo or Grafana Enterprise Traces 2.7 or newer, you can configure your custom limit to maintain a stable and reliable tracing environment.