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title: "💭 Configure the Tempo data source | Grafana documentation"
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date: 2025-05-07
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Really helpful article to getting tempo datasource setup in grafana, this enables you to see span and trace data within grafana.  This data helps debug and work through issues that you might come into  with performance and need to see the timing of requests along with logs.

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