Overview
Distributed tracing visualizes the lifecycle of a request as it passes through a set of applications.
Grafana Cloud Traces is a fully managed distributed tracing system powered by Grafana Tempo. Use its highly scalable, cost-effective trace storage and query engine to understand the flow of requests and data in your software systems and track down issues quickly.
Cloud Traces uses object storage and a columnar trace storage format based on Apache Parquet, making it extremely cost effective.
You can use open source tracing protocols, including OpenTelemetry, Zipkin, and Jaegar.
Guidance and help
