# Grafana Tempo HTTP API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/tempo-http-api/  
**Provider:** Grafana — https://apis.io/providers/grafana-com/  
**Documentation:** https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/

Grafana Tempo HTTP API is one of 20 APIs that [Grafana](https://apis.io/providers/grafana-com/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Observability, Tempo, Traces, and TraceQL. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

High-volume, minimal-dependency distributed tracing backend. Supports OTLP ingestion, trace lookup by ID (`/api/traces/{traceID}`), TraceQL search (`/api/search`), tag and value listing, and metrics derived from spans. Stores traces in object storage (S3, GCS, Azure Blob) with bloom-filter index.

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **Documentation** — https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/grafana/tempo

## Other Grafana APIs (12)

- [Grafana HTTP API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-http-api/)
- [Grafana Dashboard API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-dashboard-api/)
- [Grafana Folder and Search API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-folder-api/)
- [Grafana Data Source API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-data-source-api/)
- [Grafana Alerting Provisioning API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-alerting-api/)
- [Grafana Annotations API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-annotations-api/)
- [Grafana Organization and Users API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-org-api/)
- [Grafana Access Control (RBAC) API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-rbac-api/)
- [Grafana Admin API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-admin-api/)
- [Grafana Library Elements API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-library-elements-api/)
- [Grafana Correlations API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-correlations-api/)
- [Grafana Snapshot, Short URL, and Query History API](https://apis.io/apis/grafana-com/grafana-snapshot-shorturl-api/)

## Tags

Observability, Tempo, Traces, TraceQL

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