Tracing
Grafana Tempo
Grafana Labs
High-volume, minimal-dependency trace backend (the "T" in LGTM) that ingests Jaeger/Zipkin/OTel and stores cheaply in object storage.
- Category
- Tracing
- License
- Open source
- Deployment
- SaaS or self-hosted
- Cost
- Free
- Free tier
- Yes
- Self-host effort
- Moderate
- Maturity
- Established
- Popularity
- ≈5.3k GitHub stars
The catch
Tracing-only and historically trace-ID-centric (TraceQL improved this); designed to be paired with Grafana + Loki + Mimir, not used standalone.
Monitors
Traces
Protocols
OTLP
Capabilities
Distributed tracing
Built for
SRE / DevOps