Grafana Tempo

Grafana Tempo is an open-source, high-scale distributed tracing backend that requires only object storage to operate, making it cost-effective and easy to run. It integrates deeply with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki for seamless observability across metrics, logs, and traces.

Grafana Tempo publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Echo API, Metrics API, Ready API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Distributed Tracing, Grafana, Microservices, Observability, and Open Source.

The Grafana Tempo catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Grafana Tempo’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, GitHub presence, engineering blog, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.

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30.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 51/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
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AccessFreemium

1 published contract 1 MCP Servers

Distributed Tracing Grafana Microservices Observability Open Source

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

SaaS Platform Operations Management

BC-4220

MetricsSearchTraces

GET /api/traces/{traceID} GET /api/metrics/summary GET /api/search

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 30.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.0 / 17

Access Clarity 4.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.5 / 15

Agent readiness — 51/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Agent Skills +5 pts — skills artifact present, graded by who authored it
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document +5 pts — a parsing /.well-known/ucp.json or acp.json declaring a version and at least one service, OR (0.27) a live x402 payment challenge from _data/x402-adoption.json — `self` when its endpoints are on the provider's own domain, `platform` when they are on a vendor's

2 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 23.8 — up to +15.2 composite points
Access Clarity scores 26.3 — up to +14.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 44.5 — up to +13.9 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 4

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Grafana Tempo Echo API

The Echo API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for echo.

Grafana Tempo Metrics API

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

Grafana Tempo Ready API

The Ready API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for ready.

Grafana Tempo Search API

The Search API from Grafana Tempo — 5 operation(s) for search.

Grafana Tempo Status API

The Status API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for status.

Grafana Tempo Traces API

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

Open Collections 7

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Grafana Tempo HTTP Echo API

OPEN COLLECTION

Grafana Tempo HTTP Echo Metrics API

OPEN COLLECTION

Grafana Tempo HTTP Echo Ready API

OPEN COLLECTION

Grafana Tempo HTTP Echo Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Grafana Tempo HTTP Echo Status API

OPEN COLLECTION

Grafana Tempo HTTP Echo Traces API

OPEN COLLECTION

Grafana Tempo HTTP API

OPEN COLLECTION

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Grafana Tempo MCP Server

Remote MCP server at mcp.grafana.com over HTTP.

MCP SERVER

Grafana Tempo API pricing

Not yet checked against Grafana Tempo's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-04; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Free freemium	Free
Professional paid	Free
Enterprise enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Free Tier Default: 10 requests per minute
Free Tier Monthly Quota: 1000 requests per month
Professional Tier Default: 100 requests per minute

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Grafana Tempo's documentation. All 5 limits →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Grafana Tempo Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Grafana Tempo Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Grafana Tempo

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Grafana Tempo Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Grafana Tempo — jsonschema rules

6 rules · 4 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Grafana Tempo Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Grafana Tempo Vulnerability Disclosure

no policy recorded

SECURITY

Grafana Tempo Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Grafana Tempo Agentic Access

10 operations

10 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub

GitHub

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: grafana-tempo
name: Grafana Tempo
description: Grafana Tempo is an open-source, high-scale distributed tracing backend that requires only object storage to
  operate, making it cost-effective and easy to run. It integrates deeply with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki for seamless
  observability across metrics, logs, and traces.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  license_evidence:
    not_product:
    - grafana/tempo
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  - repository-not-product
  generated: '2026-09-25'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/grafana-tempo.png
tags:
- Distributed Tracing
- Grafana
- Microservices
- Observability
- Open Source
tags_raw:
- Distributed Tracing
- Grafana
- Microservices
- Observability
- Open Source
- Open-Source
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/grafana-tempo/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
created: '2026-03-26'
modified: '2026-05-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: grafana-tempo:grafana-tempo-echo-api
  name: Grafana Tempo Echo API
  description: The Echo API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for echo.
  humanURL: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  tags:
  - Echo
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/grafana-tempo-echo-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trace.yml
- aid: grafana-tempo:grafana-tempo-metrics-api
  name: Grafana Tempo Metrics API
  description: The Metrics API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for metrics.
  humanURL: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/grafana-tempo-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trace.yml
- aid: grafana-tempo:grafana-tempo-ready-api
  name: Grafana Tempo Ready API
  description: The Ready API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for ready.
  humanURL: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  tags:
  - Ready
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/grafana-tempo-ready-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trace.yml
- aid: grafana-tempo:grafana-tempo-search-api
  name: Grafana Tempo Search API
  description: The Search API from Grafana Tempo — 5 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/grafana-tempo-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trace.yml
- aid: grafana-tempo:grafana-tempo-status-api
  name: Grafana Tempo Status API
  description: The Status API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for status.
  humanURL: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  tags:
  - Status
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/grafana-tempo-status-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trace.yml
- aid: grafana-tempo:grafana-tempo-traces-api
  name: Grafana Tempo Traces API
  description: The Traces API from Grafana Tempo — 1 operation(s) for traces.
  humanURL: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  tags:
  - Traces
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/grafana-tempo-traces-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trace.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/grafana-tempo-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/grafana-tempo-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/grafana-tempo-finops.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/grafana-tempo-capability-edges.yml
  name: Grafana Tempo Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/grafana-tempo-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/grafana-tempo-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/grafana-tempo-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/getting-started/
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/grafana/tempo
- type: Blog
  url: https://grafana.com/blog/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://grafana.com/pricing/
- type: Integrations
  url: https://grafana.com/integrations/
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://grafana.com/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: All visualization integrations
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

Grafana Tempo API — frequently asked questions

Does Grafana Tempo have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Grafana Tempo, including Grafana Tempo Echo API, Grafana Tempo Metrics API and Grafana Tempo Ready API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Grafana Tempo API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Grafana Tempo, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Grafana Tempo API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Grafana Tempo, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Does Grafana Tempo have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Grafana Tempo: Remote MCP server at mcp.grafana.com over HTTP.

Is the Grafana Tempo API ready for AI agents?

Grafana Tempo has a Kin Score of 30.9 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 50.7 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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