tempo

tempo is an Observability & incident response skill for AI agents, published by grafana in the skills repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates tempo C (77/100) and it passed the safety scan; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Stand up Grafana Tempo as a cost-efficient distributed-tracing backend that only needs object storage, and write TraceQL queries against it. Covers OTLP + Jaeger + Zipkin ingestion, the distributor → live-store → block-builder → object-storage write path, metrics-generator for RED spanmetrics + service graphs, Helm `tempo-distributed` deployment, multi-tenant `X-Scope-OrgID`, TraceQL span / resource / event scopes, structural operators (`>>`, `<<`), `rate()` + `quantile_over_time` metrics, and the traces-to-logs / metrics / profiles datasource links. Use when deploying Tempo, writing a TraceQL query for slow / errored requests, debugging "no traces showing in Explore", sizing queriers / compactors, configuring S3 / GCS / Azure block storage, or wiring trace ↔ log ↔ profile correlation — even when the user says "tracing backend", "find slow requests", "show me the service graph", "store traces in S3", "Jaeger compatible store", or "what called this span" without naming Tempo.

Grade
C
Quality
77 / 100
Safety
Passed
GitHub stars
192

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Our review

Architecture
94 / 100
Maturity
Packaged: licensed, with a version or references
Security scan
No issues found
License
Apache-2.0
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