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Set up a Tempo server or cluster

Tempo is available as a pre-compiled binary, a Docker image, and as common OS-specific packaging.

This section describes how to set up Tempo on a single Linux node or as a cluster using Kubernetes and Tanka. Tempo can also be set up as a distributed set of services.

This page highlights these steps; more detailed instructions are available on the procedures for installing Tempo.

Deploy Tempo

Choose a method to deploy Tempo:

You can also use Docker to deploy Tempo using the Docker examples.

Test your installation

Once Tempo is deployed, you can test Tempo by visualizing traces data: