Tempo Datasource
Monitoring & ObservabilityGrafana data source plugin for Tempo
Part of Grafana
Release history
v13.2.0
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13.2.0
- Bump go v1.26.7 and grafana-plugin-sdk-go v0.296.4 (#229)
- Fix search query error details not propagated to user (#203)
- Search: Allow a custom label for static search fields (#205)
- Return a friendly error instead of raw HTML on non-2xx Tempo responses (#214)
- Do not escape a single value regex in TraceQL search filters (#211)
- Fix: Show query error details for unsupported query types instead of a generic plugin error (#222)
- Update dependencies (#232)
- Tempo: Normalize provisioned timeRangeForTags duration strings (#234)
- Return a clearer error when a trace is not found in the time range (#213)
- Fix: Avoid double slash in trace and metrics URLs (#212)
- Tempo: Quote custom search values when tag value type is unknown (#224)
- Tempo: Fix options row padding (#238)
- Add valueType to getTagValues results (#239)
- Fix: Keep last metrics payload on streaming Done (#237)
v13.1.0
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1.0.0 (Unreleased)
Initial release.
README
Tempo data source for Grafana
Note: This core plugin was extracted from the grafana/grafana repository and is now bundled with Grafana.
Overview
Grafana datasource for the Tempo distributed tracing backend โ Grafana Labs' high-volume, minimal-dependency open-source tracing system. The plugin lets you query and visualize traces stored in Tempo, including TraceQL, Search, Service Graph, and TraceID-based lookups.
Requirements
- Grafana 12.3.0 or later
Getting started
This plugin is bundled with Grafana โ no installation is required for standard Grafana deployments.
- Navigate to Connections > Data sources in Grafana.
- Click Add data source and search for "Tempo".
- Configure the connection settings and click Save & test.
For detailed setup instructions, see the Tempo data source documentation.
Custom Grafana distributions
If you are building a custom Grafana binary or distribution that excludes bundled plugins, you can install this plugin from the Grafana plugin catalog.
Documentation
Full documentation is available at:
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/datasources/tempo/
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
License
This plugin is licensed under the AGPL-3.0.