Grafana Tempo
High-scale distributed tracing backend with minimal resource requirements.
Grafana Tempo is a distributed tracing backend that stores traces object storage only (no indexing), making it extremely cost-effective at scale. Supports OpenTracing, OpenTelemetry, and Jaeger formats. Integrates with Grafana for trace visualization and Loki for log-trace correlation. TraceQL provides a powerful query language similar to LogQL.
- Best for: Monitoring & Observability
- Pricing: Free and open-source (AGPL), Grafana Cloud from $8/mo
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Features
Alerting
Threshold and anomaly-based alerting
Trace-based alerting rules
Dashboards
Visual dashboards for metrics and logs
Native Grafana integration for trace visualization
Full-Stack APM
Application performance monitoring with traces, logs, and metrics
Tracing only, not full APM
Horizontal Scaling
Scale out across nodes and regions
Horizontal scaling via object storage
Integrations
Native integrations with other tools
Grafana, Loki, Mimir integrations
Log Aggregation
Centralized log collection and search
Tracing backend, not log aggregation
Metrics
Time-series metric collection and storage
Object-storage only — no indexing overhead
Multi-Tenancy
Isolation between teams and environments
Multi-tenant trace storage
Query Language
Custom query language for data analysis
TraceQL query language
Storage Backends
Flexible storage options (S3, local, cloud)
S3, GCS, Azure Blob, local storage
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