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Joe Elliott

Joe Elliott has been working as an SRE/Devops/Infrastraucture person with Kubernetes for the last 4 years. Currently a Principal Engineer at Grafana, he is the creator of Tempo, a Jaeger maintainer, and has contributed to the OpenTelemetry Collector, Loki and Cortex. When he's not at the keyboard or wrangling kids, Joe likes to get out on his bike.

Grafana Tempo 2.1 release: TraceQL performance improvements

4 min | 2 May 2023

New in Grafana Tempo 2.0: Apache Parquet as the default storage format, support for TraceQL

6 min | 1 Feb 2023

Grafana Tempo 1.5 release: New metrics features with OpenTelemetry, Parquet support, and the path to...

5 min | 22 Aug 2022

New in Grafana Tempo 1.4: Introducing the metrics generator

4 min | 2 May 2022

Full trace retention search comes to Grafana Cloud

3 min | 24 Mar 2022

Grafana Tempo 1.3 released: backend datastore search, auto-forget compactors, and more!

5 min | 25 Jan 2022

Grafana Tempo 1.2 released: New features make monitoring traces 2x more efficient

4 min | 10 Nov 2021

Grafana Tempo 1.1 released: New hedged requests reduce latency by 45%

3 min | 27 Aug 2021

Grafana Tempo is now GA with the release of v1.0

3 min | 9 Jun 2021

Auto-instrumenting a Java Spring Boot application for traces and logs using OpenTelemetry and...

4 min | 3 Feb 2021

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