Resources

You followed a trace through the four-stage pipeline: instrument, send, store, and query. These docs go deeper on each stage when you’re ready to set one up.

Documentation

• Instrument your applications: Produce spans from your application with OpenTelemetry.
• OpenTelemetry documentation: The open, vendor-neutral standard most teams use to instrument applications.
• Send traces to Grafana Cloud: Move spans to a backend with a collector such as Grafana Alloy.
• Adaptive Traces: Control trace volume and cost by automatically keeping your most valuable traces.
• Grafana Cloud Traces: The managed backend that stores and queries your traces.
• Grafana Tempo: The open-source tracing backend you can run yourself.