Grafana Tempo

Grafana Tempo Traces API

The Traces API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for traces.

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Grafana Tempo HTTP Echo Traces 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: Traces
paths:
  /api/traces/{traceID}:
    get:
      operationId: getTraceByID
      summary: Get trace by ID
      description: Returns a complete trace by its trace ID. The response format depends on the Accept header.
      parameters:
      - name: traceID
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Trace ID in hex format
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: start
        in: query
        description: Start of time range in Unix epoch seconds
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: end
        in: query
        description: End of time range in Unix epoch seconds
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Trace found and returned
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Trace'
            application/protobuf:
              schema:
                type: string
                format: binary
        '404':
          description: Trace not found
        '500':
          description: Internal server error
      tags:
      - Traces
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
    Span:
      type: object
      properties:
        traceId:
          type: string
        spanId:
          type: string
        parentSpanId:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        kind:
          type: integer
          description: 0=UNSPECIFIED, 1=INTERNAL, 2=SERVER, 3=CLIENT, 4=PRODUCER, 5=CONSUMER
        startTimeUnixNano:
          type: string
          description: Start time in nanoseconds since epoch
        endTimeUnixNano:
          type: string
          description: End time in nanoseconds since epoch
        attributes:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/KeyValue'
        status:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: integer
              description: 0=UNSET, 1=OK, 2=ERROR
            message:
              type: string
        events:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SpanEvent'
    ScopeSpans:
      type: object
      properties:
        scope:
          type: object
          properties:
            name:
              type: string
            version:
              type: string
        spans:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Span'
    SpanEvent:
      type: object
      properties:
        timeUnixNano:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        attributes:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/KeyValue'
    ResourceSpans:
      type: object
      properties:
        resource:
          type: object
          properties:
            attributes:
              type: array
              items:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/KeyValue'
        scopeSpans:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ScopeSpans'
    Trace:
      type: object
      properties:
        batches:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResourceSpans'