Grafana Tempo Has a Free API — Distributed Tracing at Scale

Grafana Tempo is a high-scale distributed tracing backend. It stores traces in object storage with no indexing cost — making it the cheapest tracing solution. What Is Tempo? Tempo is a distributed tracing backend by Grafana Labs. It only requires object storage (S3/GCS/MinIO) to operate — no Elasticsearch, no Cassandra. Features: No indexing required S3/GCS/MinIO backend Native Grafana integration OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin compatible TraceQL query language Quick Start docker run -p 3200:3200 -p 4317:4317 grafana/tempo:latest -config .file = /etc/tempo/tempo.yaml HTTP API # Get trace by ID curl http://localhost:3200/api/traces/TRACE_ID # Search traces curl -G http://localhost:3200/api/search \ --data-urlencode "q={resource.service.name= \" my-api \" && status=error}" \ --data-urlencode "limit=20" # TraceQL query curl -G http://localhost:3200/api/search \ --data-urlencode "q={span.http.status_code >= 500}" Send Traces (OTLP) # OpenTelemetry collector sends to Tempo # Configure OTLP e