Tracing in Grafana Cloud

Grafana Cloud provides an easy-to-operate, highly-scalable, and cost-effective distributed tracing system with Grafana Tempo.

• Grafana Cloud Agent provides support for Tempo, using the same service discovery as Prometheus and Loki

• Significantly more performance and cost effective — no more sampling

• Drastically easier to operate — no Cassandra, Elastic etc.

• OpenTelemetry, Zipkin and Jaeger compatible

Additional details

When is the beta available? It will start to roll out to registered users on October 30, 2020.

Does it cost anything extra to try?  No, the beta is free of charge!

What kind of limits are in place?  

• Your tracing data will be limited to 3 days of retention.
• Your ingestion rate will be limited to 5,000 spans/second.