Grafana Tempo
Open source distributed tracing backend that ingests Jaeger, Zipkin and OpenTelemetry traces and stores them in object storage.
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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 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.
Identity
Rendering and deploy
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Adoption
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- 2026-11-03: links, Categories
grafana.com/oss/tempo/ - 2026-11-03: links, Written in, GitHub stars, Contributors
github.com/grafana/tempo - 2026-11-03: links, Install with, Runtime
grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/setup/ - 2026-11-03: Maintainer, Maintained by, Headquarters
grafana.com/legal/privacy-policy/ - 2026-11-03: Install with
grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/set-up-for-tracing/setup-tempo/deploy/ - 2026-11-03: Install with
grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/set-up-for-tracing/setup-tempo/deploy/locally/ - 2026-11-03: License, License model
github.com/grafana/tempo/blob/main/LICENSE - 2026-11-03: Current major version, Last release
github.com/grafana/tempo/releases/tag/v3.1.1 - 2026-11-03: First release
github.com/grafana/tempo/releases/tag/v0.2.0