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.

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Grafana Tempo HTTP API

Grafana Tempo HTTP API for querying traces, searching with TraceQL, retrieving tag names and values, and computing metrics summaries from distributed trace data.

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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
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
  - Distributed Tracing
  - Grafana
  - Microservices
  - Observability
  - 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: '0.19'
apis:
  - aid: grafana-tempo:tempo-http-api
    name: Grafana Tempo HTTP API
    description: >-
      Grafana Tempo HTTP API for querying traces, searching with TraceQL, retrieving tag names and values, and computing
      metrics summaries from distributed trace data.
    humanURL: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
    tags:
      - Distributed Tracing
      - Observability
      - Search
      - TraceQL
      - Traces
    properties:
      - type: Documentation
        url: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/api_docs/
      - type: OpenAPI
        url: openapi/tempo-http-api.yml
      - type: JSONSchema
        url: json-schema/trace.yml
common:
  - 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: LLMsTxt
    url: https://grafana.com/llms.txt
integrations:
  - name: All visualization integrations
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com