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Documentation Grafana Tempo Architecture reference Components

Components

Tempo is composed of several components, each responsible for a specific part of the trace lifecycle. All components are compiled into the same binary, and the -target parameter controls which component runs.

This section documents each component in detail, including its responsibilities, configuration, failure modes, and relevant metrics.

• Distributor
• Kafka
• Block-builder
• Live-store
• Query frontend
• Querier
• Compaction
• Metrics-generator