# Grafana Tempo

Open source distributed tracing backend that ingests Jaeger, Zipkin and OpenTelemetry traces and stores them in object storage.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/grafana-tempo/
Last reviewed: 2026-11-03
Listed since: 2026-11-03

## Record

### Links

- home: https://grafana.com/oss/tempo
- repository: https://github.com/grafana/tempo
- docs: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/
- forum: https://community.grafana.com/c/grafana-tempo/40

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Raintank Inc.
- maintainerType: company
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2020
- hqCountry: US

### Kind

- category: analytics
- hosting: binary
- language: go
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: not applicable
- databases: not applicable
- adminUi: not applicable
- headlessApi: not applicable
- templating: not applicable
- i18n: not applicable

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: unknown
- renderingModes: not applicable
- installMethod: binary-download

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: AGPL-3.0

### Releases

- currentMajor: 3
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-10-21

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 5552
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 313
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/ (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://github.com/grafana/tempo (read 2026-11-03)
- urls: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/setup/ (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainer: https://grafana.com/legal/privacy-policy/ (read 2026-11-03)
- maintainerType: https://grafana.com/legal/privacy-policy/ (read 2026-11-03)
- hqCountry: https://grafana.com/legal/privacy-policy/ (read 2026-11-03)
- language: https://github.com/grafana/tempo (read 2026-11-03)
- category: https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/setup/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/setup/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/setup/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/set-up-for-tracing/setup-tempo/deploy/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/set-up-for-tracing/setup-tempo/deploy/ (read 2026-11-03)
- installMethod: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/set-up-for-tracing/setup-tempo/deploy/locally/ (read 2026-11-03)
- runtime: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/setup/ (read 2026-11-03)
- license: https://github.com/grafana/tempo/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- licenseModel: https://github.com/grafana/tempo/blob/main/LICENSE (read 2026-11-03)
- currentMajor: https://github.com/grafana/tempo/releases/tag/v3.1.1 (read 2026-11-03)
- latestReleaseDate: https://github.com/grafana/tempo/releases/tag/v3.1.1 (read 2026-11-03)
- firstRelease: https://github.com/grafana/tempo/releases/tag/v0.2.0 (read 2026-11-03)
- githubStargazers: https://github.com/grafana/tempo (read 2026-11-03)
- contributors: https://github.com/grafana/tempo (read 2026-11-03)

## Notes

Grafana Tempo is a distributed tracing backend. It receives traces sent with Jaeger, Zipkin and OpenTelemetry, and it keeps them in object storage. The [setup guide](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/setup/) describes a monolithic and a microservices deployment mode. The project ships a pre-compiled binary, OS packages and a Docker image, with Helm and Tanka examples for Kubernetes.

## Worth knowing

The setup page says the microservices mode needs a Kafka-compatible system. The homepage calls object storage the only dependency.

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