grafana/tempo
Grafana Tempo is a high volume, minimal dependency distributed tracing backend.
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Where it stands
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Ranks #545 of 2,845 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 19%).
5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 15 days ago, with 308 contributors on GitHub.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a high-scale, minimal dependency distributed tracing backend for collecting and analyzing trace data.
- Requires only object storage to operate, making it cost-efficient and easy to maintain compared to other tracing backends.
- Use for monitoring microservices performance and quickly pinpointing latency bottlenecks across distributed systems.
- Use for integrating with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki to unify observability data in a single platform.
- Use for implementing OpenTelemetry-compatible tracing pipelines that support Jaeger, Zipkin, and Kafka trace formats.
Should you depend on it?
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License
AGPL 3.0
Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
- AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.
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From the README
Grafana Tempo is an open source, easy-to-use, and high-scale distributed tracing backend. Tempo is cost-efficient, requiring only object storage to operate, and is deeply integrated with Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
Distributed tracing helps teams quickly pinpoint performance issues and understand the flow of requests across services. The Traces Drilldown UI simplifies this process by offering a user-friendly interface to view and analyze trace data, making it easier to identify and resolve issues without needing to write complex queries.
Refer to Use traces to find solutions to learn more about how you can use distributed tracing to investigate and solve issues.
We are excited to introduce the Traces Drilldown (formerly Explore Traces) app as part of the Grafana Explore suite. This app provides a queryless and intuitive experience for analyzing tracing data, allowing teams to quickly identify performance issues, latency bottlenecks, and errors without needing to write complex queries or use TraceQL.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+156 stars over 89 days across 9 snapshot days; best day +5 on Aug 11.
Forks
774+44
Open issues
186+6
Compared with peers in Observability
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Oct 11, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tracer-Cloud/opensre | 11.9K | +496 | 59 | 107 days ago |
| Effect-TS/effect | 17.4K | +94 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| mlflow/mlflow | 28.5K | +0 | 49 | 200 days ago |
| sirupsen/logrus | 25.8K | +0 | 75 | 47 days ago |
| uber-go/zap | 24.7K | +0 | 75 | 168 days ago |
| grafana/tempo | 5.5K | +0 | 75 | 15 days ago |
| Category median | 24.7K | +0 | 75 | — |
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