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Kim Nylander ac412e6859 [DOC] Update links, page weights for mounting content in Tempo data source (#100395)
Co-authored-by: Jack Baldry <jack.baldry@grafana.com>
2025-02-13 13:42:43 -05:00

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---
aliases:
- ../data-sources/tempo/
- ../features/datasources/tempo/
description: Guide for using Tempo in Grafana
keywords:
- grafana
- tempo
- guide
- tracing
labels:
products:
- cloud
- enterprise
- oss
menuTitle: Tempo
title: Tempo data source
weight: 1400
refs:
data-source-management:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management/
build-dashboards:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/dashboards/build-dashboards/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/dashboards/build-dashboards/
node-graph:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/panels-visualizations/visualizations/node-graph/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/panels-visualizations/visualizations/node-graph/
configure-tempo-data-source:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/datasources/tempo/configure-tempo-data-source/#provision-the-data-source
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/data-sources/tempo/configure-tempo-data-source/
exemplars:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/fundamentals/exemplars/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/fundamentals/exemplars/
variable-syntax:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/dashboards/variables/variable-syntax/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/dashboards/variables/variable-syntax/
explore-trace-integration:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/trace-integration/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/trace-integration/
configure-grafana-feature-toggles:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/#feature_toggles
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/#feature_toggles
provisioning-data-sources:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/provisioning/#data-sources
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/provisioning/#data-sources
explore:
- pattern: /docs/grafana/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/
- pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/
destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/
---
# Tempo data source
Grafana ships with built-in support for [Tempo](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/<TEMPO_VERSION>/), a high-volume, minimal-dependency trace storage, open source tracing solution from Grafana Labs.
To learn more about traces, refer to [Introduction to tracing](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/<TEMPO_VERSION>/introduction/).
To use traces, you need you have an application or service that is instrumented to emit traces.
Refer to the [Instrument for tracing](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/<TEMPO_VERSION>/getting-started/instrumentation/) for more information.
## Add a data source
For instructions on how to add a data source to Grafana, refer to the [administration documentation](ref:data-source-management).
Only users with the organization administrator role can add data sources.
Administrators can also [configure the data source via YAML](ref:configure-tempo-data-source) with Grafana's provisioning system.
This video explains how to add data sources, including Loki, Tempo, and Mimir, to Grafana and Grafana Cloud. Tempo data source set up starts at 4:58 in the video.
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## Learn more
After you've added the data source, you can [configure it](./configure-tempo-data-source/) so that your Grafana instance's users can create queries in its [query editor](./query-editor/) when they [build dashboards](ref:build-dashboards) and use [Explore](ref:explore).
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