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Grafana Tempo Trace

Schema for a Grafana Tempo distributed trace in OTLP JSON format containing resource spans and individual spans

Distributed TracingObservabilityOpenTelemetryGrafanaMonitoring

Properties

Name Type Description
batches array OTLP resource span batches grouped by service resource
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JSON Schema

tempo-trace-schema.json Raw ↑
{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://api-evangelist.com/schemas/tempo/trace.json",
  "title": "Grafana Tempo Trace",
  "description": "Schema for a Grafana Tempo distributed trace in OTLP JSON format containing resource spans and individual spans",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "batches": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "OTLP resource span batches grouped by service resource",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "resource": {
            "type": "object",
            "description": "Resource describing the source of the spans",
            "properties": {
              "attributes": {
                "type": "array",
                "description": "Resource attributes like service.name, service.version",
                "items": {"$ref": "#/$defs/KeyValue"}
              }
            }
          },
          "scopeSpans": {
            "type": "array",
            "description": "Spans grouped by instrumentation scope",
            "items": {
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "scope": {
                  "type": "object",
                  "description": "Instrumentation scope (library name and version)",
                  "properties": {
                    "name": {"type": "string"},
                    "version": {"type": "string"}
                  }
                },
                "spans": {
                  "type": "array",
                  "items": {"$ref": "#/$defs/Span"}
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "Span": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "A single operation in a distributed trace",
      "required": ["traceId", "spanId", "name", "startTimeUnixNano"],
      "properties": {
        "traceId": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "16-byte trace identifier in hex",
          "pattern": "^[0-9A-F]{32}$"
        },
        "spanId": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "8-byte span identifier in hex",
          "pattern": "^[0-9A-F]{16}$"
        },
        "parentSpanId": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Parent span identifier (empty string for root spans)"
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Operation name"
        },
        "kind": {
          "type": "integer",
          "description": "Span kind: 0=unspecified, 1=internal, 2=server, 3=client, 4=producer, 5=consumer",
          "enum": [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
        },
        "startTimeUnixNano": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "Start time in nanoseconds since Unix epoch"
        },
        "endTimeUnixNano": {
          "type": "string",
          "description": "End time in nanoseconds since Unix epoch"
        },
        "attributes": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Span attributes (OpenTelemetry semantic conventions)",
          "items": {"$ref": "#/$defs/KeyValue"}
        },
        "events": {
          "type": "array",
          "description": "Span events (log-like annotations)",
          "items": {
            "type": "object",
            "properties": {
              "timeUnixNano": {"type": "string"},
              "name": {"type": "string"},
              "attributes": {
                "type": "array",
                "items": {"$ref": "#/$defs/KeyValue"}
              }
            }
          }
        },
        "status": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "Span status",
          "properties": {
            "code": {
              "type": "integer",
              "description": "0=unset, 1=ok, 2=error",
              "enum": [0, 1, 2]
            },
            "message": {"type": "string"}
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "KeyValue": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "An attribute key-value pair",
      "required": ["key", "value"],
      "properties": {
        "key": {"type": "string"},
        "value": {
          "type": "object",
          "description": "AnyValue container",
          "properties": {
            "stringValue": {"type": "string"},
            "intValue": {"type": "integer"},
            "doubleValue": {"type": "number"},
            "boolValue": {"type": "boolean"},
            "arrayValue": {"type": "object"},
            "kvlistValue": {"type": "object"}
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

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