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Grafana Tempo is an open source, easy-to-use and high-volume distributed tracing backend. Tempo is cost-efficient, requiring only object storage to operate, and is deeply integrated with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki. To learn more about Grafana, refer to What is Grafana?
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