Destination reached!
Congratulations on completing this journey! Job well done!
We hope you’ve enjoyed traveling with us as you:
- Learned why distributed tracing is essential for observability
- Learned about the advantages of using the Tempo data source in Grafana Cloud
- Gathered the URL, credentials, and tenant ID for your Tempo backend
- Added and named a new Tempo data source in Grafana Cloud
- Configured the connection URL for your Tempo environment
- Selected an authentication method and entered credentials
- Successfully saved and tested the data source connection
- Verified trace data by running a TraceQL query in Explore
More to explore (optional)
The world is your oyster! Read more about how you can extend your Tempo setup:
- Trace to logs — Navigate from spans to related logs in Loki.
- Trace to metrics — Link spans to Prometheus queries.
- Trace to profiles — Link spans to flame graphs in Pyroscope.
- Trace correlations — Build custom correlation links between signals.
- Service Graph — Visualize service dependencies and RED metrics.
- Provision the Tempo data source — Manage the data source with a YAML file.
Related paths
Consider taking the following paths after you complete this journey: