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Grafana Cloud Setup

Connect to Grafana Cloud Tempo for managed distributed tracing
  1. Log in to your Grafana Cloud account
  2. Navigate to your Grafana Cloud portal
  3. Go to ‘My Account’ → ‘Tempo’ section
  4. Find your Tenant ID (Instance ID) in the Tempo details
  5. Note your region (e.g., prod-us-central-0)
  6. Create an API token: ‘Security’ → ‘Access Policies’ → ‘Create access policy’
  7. Ensure the token has ‘traces:read’ scope
  8. Copy the generated API token (starts with glc_)
Related Documentation: View Grafana Cloud Traces Documentation

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Self-Hosted Tempo Setup

Connect to your own Tempo instance
  1. Identify your Tempo server hostname or IP address
  2. Ensure the query frontend port (default 3200) is accessible
  3. If using basic authentication, prepare your credentials
  4. For HTTPS, ensure SSL certificates are properly configured
  5. Test connectivity: curl http://tempo.example.com:3200/ready
Related Documentation: View Tempo Documentation

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Field Reference

The following fields are used when configuring this integration:
  • API Token (apiToken)
  • Tempo URL (hostname)
  • Password (password)
  • Cloud Region (region)
  • Tenant ID / Instance ID (tenantId)
  • Username (username)