Tempo Traces API

openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Grafana Tempo HTTP Health Traces API
  description: The Grafana Tempo HTTP API provides endpoints for querying distributed traces, searching spans with TraceQL, discovering tag keys and values, and generating metrics from trace data. Tempo is compatible with Jaeger, Zipkin, and OpenTelemetry trace ingestion and query protocols. The API runs on the Tempo HTTP port (default 3200).
  version: 2.x
  contact:
    name: Grafana Tempo Community
    url: https://community.grafana.com/c/grafana-tempo/
    email: tempo@grafana.com
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
servers:
- url: http://localhost:3200
  description: Local Tempo instance (default)
- url: http://tempo:3200
  description: Kubernetes service endpoint
tags:
- name: Traces
  description: Retrieve individual traces by trace ID
paths:
  /api/traces/{traceID}:
    get:
      operationId: getTrace
      summary: Get Trace By ID
      description: Retrieve a complete trace by its trace ID. Returns all spans belonging to the trace in JSON format. Supports deep object storage search when the trace is not in recent cache.
      tags:
      - Traces
      parameters:
      - name: traceID
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Hexadecimal trace identifier
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^[0-9a-fA-F]{16,32}$
      - name: start
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Unix epoch start time for search window (seconds)
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      - name: end
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Unix epoch end time for search window (seconds)
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Trace found and returned
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Trace'
        '404':
          description: Trace not found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
components:
  schemas:
    Error:
      type: object
      description: API error response
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
          description: Error message
    KeyValue:
      type: object
      description: An attribute key-value pair
      properties:
        key:
          type: string
        value:
          type: object
    Trace:
      type: object
      description: A complete distributed trace containing all spans
      properties:
        batches:
          type: array
          description: OTLP resource span batches
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              resource:
                type: object
                description: Resource attributes (service name, version, etc.)
                properties:
                  attributes:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/KeyValue'
              scopeSpans:
                type: array
                description: Spans grouped by instrumentation scope
                items:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    scope:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        name:
                          type: string
                        version:
                          type: string
                    spans:
                      type: array
                      items:
                        $ref: '#/components/schemas/Span'
    Span:
      type: object
      description: A single operation within a distributed trace
      properties:
        traceId:
          type: string
          description: Trace identifier (hex)
        spanId:
          type: string
          description: Span identifier (hex)
        parentSpanId:
          type: string
          description: Parent span identifier (hex)
        name:
          type: string
          description: Operation name
        kind:
          type: integer
          description: Span kind (0=unspecified, 1=internal, 2=server, 3=client, 4=producer, 5=consumer)
        startTimeUnixNano:
          type: string
          description: Start time in nanoseconds since Unix epoch
        endTimeUnixNano:
          type: string
          description: End time in nanoseconds since Unix epoch
        attributes:
          type: array
          description: Span attributes
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/KeyValue'
        status:
          type: object
          description: Span status
          properties:
            code:
              type: integer
              description: Status code (0=unset, 1=ok, 2=error)
            message:
              type: string
externalDocs:
  description: Grafana Tempo API Documentation
  url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/