# tempo

> Claude/Codex skill by [@grafana](https://omgskills.com/library/grafana/index.md) · 286 stars · Updated 2026-10-17

Stand up Grafana Tempo as a cost-efficient distributed-tracing backend that only needs object storage, and write TraceQL queries against it. Covers OTLP + Jaeger + Zipkin ingestion, the distributor → live-store → block-builder → object-storage write path, metrics-generator for RED spanmetrics + service graphs, Helm \`tempo-distributed\` deployment, multi-tenant \`X-Scope-OrgID\`, TraceQL span / resource / event scopes, structural operators (\`\>\>\`, \`\<\<\`), \`rate()\` + \`quantile\_over\_time\` metrics, and the traces-to-logs / metrics / profiles datasource links. Use when deploying Tempo, writing a TraceQL query for slow / errored requests, debugging "no traces showing in Explore", sizing queriers / compactors, configuring S3 / GCS / Azure block storage, or wiring trace ↔ log ↔ profile correlation — even when the user says "tracing backend", "find slow requests", "show me the service graph", "store traces in S3", "Jaeger compatible store", or "what called this span" without naming Tempo.

## Install

```sh
git clone https://github.com/grafana/skills /tmp/skills && ln -s /tmp/skills/skills/grafana-lgtm/tempo ~/.claude/skills/tempo
```

## From README

Grafana Tempo Docs: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/ Cost-efficient distributed tracing. Accepts OTLP / Jaeger / Zipkin / OpenCensus / Kafka. Stores Parquet blocks in S3/GCS/Azure. Prerequisites Docker ( ) or Kubernetes (production) Object storage bucket (S3/GCS/Azure) for distributed deployments An OTLP-emitting app or tempo-cli for synthetic traffic A Grafana stack with a Tempo datasource for querying Common Workflows Stand up Tempo locally + verify ingestion Send traces from an app via Alloy Write + run TraceQL Full operator + scope cheat sheet, intrinsics list, metric functions: references/traceql.md. Deploy on Kubernetes (Helm) Multi-tenancy Full architecture, ports, performance tuning, metrics-generator config, multi-tenant client snippets, traces-to-logs/metrics/profiles datasource: references/architecture-and-operations.md.

## Links

- HTML page: https://omgskills.com/library/grafana/skills/tempo/
- GitHub: https://github.com/grafana/skills
- Author: [@grafana](https://omgskills.com/library/grafana/index.md)

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