Grafana Tempo

Grafana Tempo Metrics API

The Metrics API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for metrics.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Grafana Tempo HTTP Echo Metrics API
  description: Grafana Tempo HTTP API for querying traces, searching with TraceQL, and retrieving trace metadata. Tempo is an open-source, high-scale distributed tracing backend.
  version: 2.0.0
  contact:
    name: Grafana Labs
    url: https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/
  license:
    name: AGPL-3.0
    url: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html
servers:
- url: http://localhost:3200
  description: Default Tempo server
tags:
- name: Metrics
paths:
  /api/metrics/summary:
    get:
      operationId: getMetricsSummary
      summary: Get metrics summary
      description: Returns RED metrics (rate, error, duration) computed from traces matching the given TraceQL query.
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: true
        description: TraceQL query to compute metrics from
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: groupBy
        in: query
        description: Attribute to group metrics by
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: start
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: end
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Metrics summary
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/MetricsSummaryResponse'
      tags:
      - Metrics
components:
  schemas:
    KeyValue:
      type: object
      properties:
        key:
          type: string
        value:
          type: object
          properties:
            stringValue:
              type: string
            intValue:
              type: string
            doubleValue:
              type: number
            boolValue:
              type: boolean
    MetricsSummaryResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        spanCount:
          type: integer
        errorSpanCount:
          type: integer
        series:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              labels:
                type: array
                items:
                  $ref: '#/components/schemas/KeyValue'
              p50:
                type: number
              p90:
                type: number
              p95:
                type: number
              p99:
                type: number
              rate:
                type: number
              errors:
                type: number