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title: "Use tracing data in Grafana | Grafana Tempo documentation"
description: "Learn how to configure and query Tempo data with Grafana."
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# Use tracing data in Grafana

You can use Tempo as a data source in Grafana. Grafana Cloud comes pre-configured with a Tempo data source.

If you are using Grafana on-prem, you need to [set up the Tempo data source](/docs/grafana/next/datasources/tempo/).

> Tip
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> If you want to explore tracing data in Grafana, try the [Intro to Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Profiling example](../../getting-started/docker-example/).

This video explains how to add data sources, including Loki, Tempo, and Mimir, to Grafana and Grafana Cloud. Tempo data source set up starts at 4:58 in the video.

## Configure the data source

For detailed instructions on the Tempo data source in Grafana, refer to [Tempo data source](/docs/grafana/next/datasources/tempo/).

To configure Tempo with Grafana:

1. Point the Grafana data source at your Tempo query frontend (or monolithic mode Tempo).
2. Enter the URL: `http://<tempo hostname>:<http port number>`. For most of [the Tempo examples](https://github.com/grafana/tempo/tree/main/example/docker-compose) the following works.

The port of 3200 is a common port used in our examples. Tempo default HTTP port is 3200.

## Query the data source

Refer to [Tempo in Grafana](/docs/tempo/latest/introduction/tempo-in-grafana/) for an overview about how tracing data can be viewed and queried in Grafana.

For information on querying the Tempo data source, refer to [Tempo query editor](/docs/grafana/next/datasources/tempo/query-editor/).