Get started with Tempo on Grafana Cloud

Offered as a fully managed service, Grafana Cloud Traces is a highly scalable, and cost-effective distributed tracing backend based on Grafana Tempo.

Sign up and get free forever access to:
  • 50GB of traces
  • 50GB of logs
  • 10k series for metrics
  • 14-day retention for metrics and logs
  • Access for up to 3 team members
  • Plus a 14-day trial of Grafana Cloud Pro to explore unlimited metrics, logs, users, and premium features.

Get Grafana OnCall fully-managed with Grafana Cloud

Grafana OnCall is an easy-to-use on-call management tool intuitively built into Grafana Cloud that will help reduce toil in on-call management through simpler workflows and interfaces that is tailored specifically for engineers.

Free forever access to: 

  • 100 SMS / Voice Notifications
  • 10k series for Prometheus metrics
  • 50 GB of logs and 50 GB of traces
  • 14-day retention
  • Access for up to 30 users
  • Plus a 14-day trial of Grafana Cloud Pro to explore unlimited SMS/Voice, metrics, logs, users, and premium features.

Performance at scale

Unlike other tracing tools, Grafana Traces does not index the traces which makes it possible to store orders of magnitude more trace data for the same cost, and removes the need for sampling.
  • Stores orders of magnitude more trace data for the same cost, and removes the need for sampling.
  • Reduces the TCO by an order of magnitude and makes the system overall much easier to use.

Integrated with your tools; correlated with your metadata

Pivot seamlessly between metrics, logs, and traces. You can, for example, leverage your existing logs to find the trace you care about.
  • Enables jumping between different data sources and different data types.
  • Accepts trace spans in multiple formats including Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and Zipkin.

A powerful and flexible query language

Grafana Logs uses a similar label format and query language to Prometheus, making it easier to learn and faster to switch between metrics and logs when diagnosing an issue.

  • Query logs with the same syntax used for querying metrics
  • Write log queries that allow you to dynamically filter and transform your log lines
  • Easily calculate metrics from your logs, like the rate of errors or top K sources with the highest log volume
  • Minimal indexing at ingest time means you can slice and dice your logs dynamically at query time to answer new questions as they arise

Data sources

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Grafana Cloud

Get centralized view into your observability, wherever it lives

Grafana Grafana

Create, explore, and share beautiful dashboards that combine data from multiple sources to foster a data-driven culture within your team.

Logs Logs

Experience the magic of switching from metrics to logs with preserved label filters and time ranges. Quickly search through all your logs or stream them live.

Metrics Metrics

Explore your data through ad-hoc queries and dynamic drilldown. Split view and compare different time ranges, queries, and data sources side by side.

Traces Traces

Grafana ships with built-in support for Grafana Tempo, a high-volume, minimal-dependency open source tracing solution.

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D3
MySQL

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