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Grafana Enterprise Traces
Grafana Enterprise Traces
Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET) is a commercial offering based on the open-source project Tempo. The commercial offering allows you to deploy a highly-scalable, simple, and reliable traces cluster in your own data center. The plugin gives you an easy way to manage your traces cluster.
Features
- Tenant management: Easily scale up to hundreds of GET tenants on a single cluster.
- Access policies and tokens: Fully control and visualise who has access to what.
Configuration
After the plugin has been installed into your Grafana instance, enable and initialize it:
- Navigate to Configuration > Plugins within your Grafana instance.
- Select the Grafana Enterprise Traces app from the list.
- Click the Enable plugin button on the plugin page to enable the plugin.
- Fill out the API settings section with the GET bootstrap token and a URL where the cluster can be accessed.
- Start using the GET plugin.
Grafana Cloud Pro
- $25 / user / month and includes a free trial for new users
- Available with a Grafana Cloud Pro plan
- Access to 1 Enterprise plugin
- Fully managed service (not available to self-manage)
Grafana Cloud Advanced / Grafana Enterprise
- Available with a Grafana Cloud Advanced plan or Grafana Enterprise license
- Access to all Enterprise plugins
- Run fully managed or self-manage on your own infrastructure
Installing Grafana Enterprise Traces on Grafana Cloud:
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
Installing plugins on a Grafana Cloud instance is a one-click install; same with updates. Cool, right?
Note that it could take up to 1 minute to see the plugin show up in your Grafana.
For more information, visit the docs on plugin installation.
Installing on a local Grafana:
For local instances, plugins are installed and updated via a simple CLI command. Plugins are not updated automatically, however you will be notified when updates are available right within your Grafana.
1. Install the Application
Use the grafana-cli tool to install Grafana Enterprise Traces from the commandline:
grafana-cli plugins install The plugin will be installed into your grafana plugins directory; the default is /var/lib/grafana/plugins. More information on the cli tool.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file for your architecture below and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
Alternatively, you can manually download the .zip file and unpack it into your grafana plugins directory.
2. Enable it
Next, log into your Grafana instance. Navigate to the Plugins section, found in your Grafana main menu.
Click the Apps tabs in the Plugins section and select the newly installed app.
To enable the app, click the Config tab. Follow the instructions provided with the application and click Enable. The app and any new UI pages are now accessible from within the main menu, as designed by the app creator.
If dashboards have been included with the application, they will attempt to be automatically installed. To view the dashboards, re-import or delete individual dashboards, click the Dashboards tab within the app page.
Changelog
All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. This project adheres to Semantic Versioning.
v1.1.0 -- May 2 2022
- [ENHANCEMENT] - Improved flow of access policy creation, including automatically selecting appropriate scopes based on user's intention to create a datasource
- [ENHANCEMENT] - Added support for admin API versions 2 and 3; version can be selected in plugin configuration
- [ENHANCEMENT] - Debug export now appears, conditionally on backend support
- [ENHANCEMENT] - Improved form usability for creating and editing tenants, access policies, and tokens
- [ENHANCEMENT] - Restored compatibility with Grafana v7.5
- [ENHANCEMENT] - Token creation dialog now defines expiry in terms of days
- [FEATURE] - Added ring health page
- [FIX] - Fixed token creation dialog's copy-to-clipboard functionality for later versions of Grafana
- [FIX] - In the token dialog, the ability to create datasources is appropriately limited to a single tenant (to match actual capability of backend service)
- [FIX] - Interpret initial If-Match ETag when fetching collections of tokens, access policies, and tenants
- [FIX] - Remove extra trailing slashes in plugin settings and remote write URLs
- [FIX] - Token creation dialog will offer to create datasources only when read scopes are present
- [FIX] Fixed interpretation of dates in "last heartbeat" column in ring health page; the relative time offset will periodically update now, and a tooltip will display the reported date and time
- [FIX] Clarify license status, providing warning banners if the license is expired, or near expiry
- [FIX] Fixed the ring health page "forget" button behavior: ring members will now only be removed from the list when the request has succeeded
v1.0.2 -- March 14 2022
- [FIX] - Fixed copy-to-clipboard functionality for Grafana v8.3+
v1.0.1 -- February 24 2022
- [FIX] - Add compatibility with grafana-enterprise v8.4.2+
v1.0.0 -- November 9 2021
- Initial release including the basic features of Grafana Enterprise Traces (GET).
