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title: "Configure tracing options | Grafana Cloud documentation"
description: "Configure traces to send to Grafana Cloud"
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# Configure tracing options

After you’ve set up Grafana Cloud Traces, you can configure additional options to link your tracing data to other telemetry signals, enable the metrics-generator to generate metrics from traces, and more.

- [Metrics-generator in Grafana Cloud Traces](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/traces/configure/metrics-generator/)  
  The Tempo metrics-generator can derive metrics from traces as they are ingested.
- [Sampling strategies for tracing](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/traces/configure/sampling/)  
  Understand and configure sampling strategies for distributed tracing.
- [Configure and use exemplars](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/traces/configure/exemplars/)  
  Configure and use exemplars in Grafana Cloud
- [Metrics summary API (deprecated)](/docs/grafana-cloud/send-data/traces/configure/metrics-summary-api/)  
  Learn how to use the metrics summary API in Grafana Cloud Traces