# Grafana Tempo

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/grafana-tempo/  
**Website:** https://grafana.com/oss/tempo/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

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.

## Kin Score — 34.4 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 50.8 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 24.5 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (6)

- **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.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Grafana Tempo Agentic Access** — 10 operations

## Security (2)

- **Grafana Tempo Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Grafana Tempo Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR

## Plans (1)

- **Grafana Tempo Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Distributed Tracing, Grafana, Microservices, Observability, Open-Source

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/grafana-tempo/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.