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title: "Resources | Grafana Labs"
description: "Documentation to revisit what a trace is, how spans compose it, and where tracing fits among the signals."
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> For a curated documentation index, see [llms.txt](/llms.txt). For the complete documentation index, see [llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt).

## Resources

This section covered what a trace is, how spans compose it, and where tracing fits among the signals. These docs go deeper on each idea.

## Documentation

- [Introduction to tracing](/docs/tempo/latest/introduction/): Revisit what traces and spans are.
- [Trace structure](/docs/tempo/latest/introduction/trace-structure/): A closer look at spans, parent and child nesting, and attributes.
- [Telemetry signals](/docs/tempo/latest/introduction/telemetry/): How metrics, logs, traces, and profiles work together.