--- 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 refs: data-source-management: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management/ - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/data-source-management/ build-dashboards: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/dashboards/build-dashboards/ - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/dashboards/build-dashboards/ node-graph: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/panels-visualizations/visualizations/node-graph/ - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/panels-visualizations/visualizations/node-graph/ configure-tempo-data-source: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/datasources/tempo/configure-tempo-data-source/#provision-the-data-source - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/connect-externally-hosted/data-sources/tempo/configure-tempo-data-source/ exemplars: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/fundamentals/exemplars/ - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/fundamentals/exemplars/ variable-syntax: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/dashboards/variables/variable-syntax/ - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/visualizations/dashboards/variables/variable-syntax/ explore-trace-integration: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/trace-integration/ - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/trace-integration/ configure-grafana-feature-toggles: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/#feature_toggles - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/setup-grafana/configure-grafana/#feature_toggles provisioning-data-sources: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/provisioning/#data-sources - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/administration/provisioning/#data-sources explore: - pattern: /docs/grafana/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/ - pattern: /docs/grafana-cloud/ destination: /docs/grafana/<GRAFANA_VERSION>/explore/ --- # Tempo data source Grafana ships with built-in support for [Tempo](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/<TEMPO_VERSION>/), a high-volume, minimal-dependency trace storage, open source tracing solution from Grafana Labs. To learn more about traces, refer to [Introduction to tracing](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/<TEMPO_VERSION>/introduction/). To use traces, you need you have an application or service that is instrumented to emit traces. Refer to the [Instrument for tracing](https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/<TEMPO_VERSION>/getting-started/instrumentation/) for more information. ## Add a 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. {{< youtube id="cqHO0oYW6Ic" start="298" >}} ## Learn more After you've added the data source, you can [configure it](./configure-tempo-data-source/) so that your Grafana instance's users can create queries in its [query editor](./query-editor/) when they [build dashboards](ref:build-dashboards) and use [Explore](ref:explore). {{< section withDescriptions="true">}}