Grafana Tempo

Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/

Cost-efficient distributed tracing. Accepts OTLP / Jaeger / Zipkin / OpenCensus / Kafka. Stores Parquet blocks in S3/GCS/Azure.

Prerequisites

• Docker (quick start) or Kubernetes (production)
• Object storage bucket (S3/GCS/Azure) for distributed deployments
• An OTLP-emitting app or tempo-cli for synthetic traffic
• A Grafana stack with a Tempo datasource for querying

Common Workflows

1. Stand up Tempo locally + verify ingestion