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  • What are traces?
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      • Generate metrics from spans
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    • Tempo Architecture
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    • Best practices
    • Monitor Tempo
    • Use polling to monitor backend status
    • Tune the consistent hash rings
    • Resize ingester PVCs
    • Enable multi-tenancy
    • Improve performance with caching
    • Tempo CLI
    • Parquet schema
    • Tune search performance
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Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.

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Manage Tempo

This section provides resources for managing and tuning Tempo.

  • Tempo Architecture
  • Server-side metrics architecture
  • Best practices for traces
  • Monitor Tempo
  • Use polling to monitor backend status
  • Tune the consistent hash rings
  • Resize ingester PVCs
  • Enable multi-tenancy
  • Improve performance with caching
  • Tempo CLI
  • Apache Parquet schema
  • Tune search performance
  • Search with Google Cloud Run
  • Search with AWS setup
  • Generic forwarding
  • Troubleshoot Tempo

In addition, the Tempo runbooks can help with remediating operational issues.

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