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Learn OpenTelemetry tracing through a grand strategy game: introducing Game of Traces

Jay Clifford   ·   11 Aug 2025   ·   11 min read

Learn OpenTelemetry tracing through a grand strategy game: introducing Game of Traces

Game of Traces is a grand strategy game you can play to learn the key concepts of OpenTelemetry tracing — and, of course, heroically defend a few...

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Faster incident response through distributed tracing: Inside Glovo's use of Traces Drilldown

Trevor Jones   ·   1 Jul 2025   ·   7 min read

Faster incident response through distributed tracing: Inside Glovo's use of Traces Drilldown

Learn how on-demand food and grocery delivery platform Glovo used Traces Drilldown to help find the root cause of an incident caused by cascading...

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Grafana Tempo 2.8 release: memory improvements, new TraceQL features, and more

Tiffany Jernigan   ·   12 Jun 2025   ·   6 min read

Grafana Tempo 2.8 release: memory improvements, new TraceQL features, and more

The latest release of Grafana Tempo brings memory improvements, new TraceQL features, bug fixes, and some breaking changes.

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Queryless tracing for faster root-cause analysis: Grafana Traces Drilldown is generally available

Alex Bikfalvi   ·   8 May 2025   ·   9 min read

Queryless tracing for faster root-cause analysis: Grafana Traces Drilldown is generally available

Grafana Traces Drilldown enables you to quickly investigate and visualize tracing data through a simplified, point-and-click experience — no TraceQL...

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Grafana Labs acquires TailCtrl to accelerate development of Adaptive Traces for cost optimization

Tom Wilkie   ·   24 Sep 2024   ·   3 min read

Grafana Labs acquires TailCtrl to accelerate development of Adaptive Traces for cost optimization

Grafana Labs has acquired TailCtrl, an early-stage company specializing in adaptive trace sampling.

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All about span events: what they are and how to query them

Jennie Pham   ·   15 Aug 2024   ·   5 min read

All about span events: what they are and how to query them

Learn what a span event is, how to query them with TraceQL, and how they can improve your tracing game.

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Grafana Tempo 2.5 release: vParquet4, streaming endpoints, and more metrics

Joe Elliott   ·   3 Jun 2024   ·   5 min read

Grafana Tempo 2.5 release: vParquet4, streaming endpoints, and more metrics

The latest release of Grafana Tempo introduces a new Parquet storage format, gRPC streaming formats on the frontend, and additional TraceQL metrics...

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Grafana Tempo 2.4 release: TraceQL metrics, tiered caching, and TCO improvements

Joe Elliott   ·   29 Feb 2024   ·   5 min read

Grafana Tempo 2.4 release: TraceQL metrics, tiered caching, and TCO improvements

The latest release of Tempo introduces metric queries, tiered caching, cross-tenant queries, and more.

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Accelerate TraceQL queries at scale with dedicated attribute columns in Grafana Tempo

Mario Rodriguez   ·   22 Jan 2024   ·   7 min read

Accelerate TraceQL queries at scale with dedicated attribute columns in Grafana Tempo

Dedicated attribute columns can have significant impact on query performance and memory usage in Grafana Tempo. Learn more about this new feature and...

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Grafana Tempo 2.3 release: faster trace queries, TraceQL upgrades

Joe Elliott   ·   1 Nov 2023   ·   5 min read

Grafana Tempo 2.3 release: faster trace queries, TraceQL upgrades

Tempo 2.3 is here with blazing fast queries thanks to Tempo's new block format, vParquet3. This latest release also includes new TraceQL features and...

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Send Lambda traces to Grafana Cloud with OpenTelemetry

Kamel Djoudi   ·   11 Oct 2023   ·   6 min read

Send Lambda traces to Grafana Cloud with OpenTelemetry

Learn how to use the AWS Distribution for OpenTelemetry (ADOT) to export AWS Lambda traces to Grafana Cloud Traces with Grafana Agent as an OTLP...

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What's new in distributed trace visualization in Grafana

Joey Tawadrous   ·   8 Aug 2023   ·   6 min read

What's new in distributed trace visualization in Grafana

It's easier than ever to work with distributed tracing in Grafana. Learn how span filters and improvements to the trace view header and configuration...

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Grafana Tempo 2.2 release: TraceQL structural operators are here!

Joe Elliott   ·   2 Aug 2023   ·   5 min read

Grafana Tempo 2.2 release: TraceQL structural operators are here!

Structural operators and new trace-level intrinsics are just a few of the many exciting new features available in Tempo 2.2.

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Grafana Tempo 2.1 release: TraceQL performance improvements

Joe Elliott   ·   2 May 2023   ·   4 min read

Grafana Tempo 2.1 release: TraceQL performance improvements

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Get to know TraceQL: A powerful new query language for distributed tracing

Marty Disibio   ·   7 Feb 2023   ·   8 min read

Get to know TraceQL: A powerful new query language for distributed tracing

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