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Grafana Tempo is an open source, easy-to-use, and high-volume distributed tracing backend. Tempo is cost-efficient, and only requires an object storage to operate. Tempo is deeply integrated with Grafana, Mimir, Prometheus, and Loki. You can use Tempo with open-source tracing protocols, including Jaeger, Zipkin, or OpenTelemetry.

Tempo implements TraceQL, a traces-first query language inspired by LogQL and PromQL. This query language allows users to very precisely and easily select spans and jump directly to the spans fulfilling the specified conditions.

Tempo integrates well with a number of existing open source tools:

Trace visualization in Grafana

Grafana Tempo builds an index from the high-cardinality trace-id field. Because Tempo uses an object store as a backend, Tempo can query many blocks simultaneously, so queries are highly parallelized. For more information, see Architecture.

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