TEMPO-GRAFANA

Scalable object-storage tracing from Grafana.

Definition

Tempo architecture: Distributor (ingest), Ingester (write WAL → S3), Querier (read), Compactor (merge blocks). OTLP, Jaeger, Zipkin ingest. TraceQL query language. Native trace-to-metrics and trace-to-logs correlation in Grafana UI. v2.6 current (2025).

Origin

Announced by Grafana Labs October 2020 ; v1.0 released June 2021.

Example in context

A SaaS keeps 30 days of traces at 100K/sec in Tempo on S3 with 10x lower cost than Jaeger+Cassandra.

Related terms

• Loki — logs twin.