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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
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---
# Tempo data source
Grafana ships with built-in support for [Tempo](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/), a high-volume, minimal-dependency trace storage, open source tracing solution from Grafana Labs. This topic explains configuration and queries specific to the Tempo 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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Once you've added the data source, you can [configure it]({{< relref "./configure-tempo-data-source/" >}}) so that your Grafana instance's users can create queries in its [query editor]({{< relref "./query-editor/" >}}) when they [build dashboards](ref:build-dashboards) and use [Explore](ref:explore).
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