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Documentation Grafana Tempo Set up for tracing Set up Tempo

Set up Tempo

To set up Tempo, you need to:

1. Plan your deployment
2. Deploy Tempo
3. Test your installation
4. (Optional) Configure Tempo services

Plan your deployment

How you choose to deploy Tempo depends upon your tracing needs. Tempo has two deployment modes: monolithic or microservices.

Refer to Plan your deployment to determine the best method to deploy Tempo.

Deploy Tempo

Once you have decided the best method, you can deploy and set up Tempo.

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

Refer to Deploy Tempo for instructions for deploying using Kubernetes and deploying locally.

Test your installation

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

• Using a test application for a Tempo cluster for the Kubernetes with Tanka setup
• Using a Docker example to test the Linux setup

These visualizations test Kubernetes with Tanka and Linux procedures. They don’t check optional configuration you have enabled.

(Optional) Configure Tempo services

Explore features by learning about available features and configurations.

If you would like to see a simplified, annotated example configuration for Tempo, the Introduction To MLT example repository contains a configuration for a monolithic instance.