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.