Documentation Grafana Cloud Instrument and send data Traces Configure tracing options

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
  The Tempo metrics-generator can derive metrics from traces as they are ingested.
• Sampling strategies for tracing
  Understand and configure sampling strategies for distributed tracing.
• Reduce individual trace size
  Understand what makes traces large and how to reduce individual trace size in Grafana Cloud Traces.
• Configure and use exemplars
  Configure and use exemplars in Grafana Cloud
• Metrics summary API (deprecated)
  Learn how to use the metrics summary API in Grafana Cloud Traces