# Tempo

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

Tempo is an open source, high-scale distributed tracing backend from Grafana Labs. Designed for cost-efficient, object storage-backed trace storage with minimal operational overhead. Integrates with popular open telemetry standards including OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin, and W3C Trace Context. Provides HTTP query APIs for trace retrieval, search, tag discovery, and metrics generation.

## Kin Score — 36.1 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 36.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 64.8 |
| Contract Quality | 56.5 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 23.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.4 |
| Access Clarity | 21.4 |

## Agent readiness — 31.6 (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 | verified |
| 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)

- **Tempo TraceQL API** — TraceQL is a query language developed for Grafana Tempo that allows filtering and selecting spans within traces. The TraceQL search API endpoint enables rich span-level filterin...
- **Tempo Health API** — Health and readiness endpoints
- **Tempo Metrics API** — Generate metrics from trace data
- **Tempo Search API** — Search traces and spans using TraceQL
- **Tempo Tags API** — Discover tag keys and values in trace data
- **Tempo Traces API** — Retrieve individual traces by trace ID

## Agentic access (1)

- **Tempo Agentic Access** — 7 operations

## Security (2)

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

## Plans (1)

- **Tempo Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Distributed Tracing, Observability, OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Monitoring

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