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  • Grafana Tempo
  • Introduction
    • Traces and telemetry
    • Trace structure
    • Tempo architecture
    • Visualize data
    • Glossary
  • Use cases
    • Identify bottlenecks and establish SLOs
    • Diagnose errors with traces
    • Solve problems with metrics queries
  • Quick start for Tempo
  • Set up for tracing
    • Set up Tempo
      • Plan your deployment
        • Deployment modes
        • Size the cluster
      • Deploy your Tempo instance
        • Deploy Tempo locally
          • Deploy on Linux
          • Deploy using Docker Compose
        • Deploy Tempo on Kubernetes
          • Deploy with Helm
          • Deploy with operator
            • Quickstart
            • Object storage
            • Enable multi-tenancy
            • Monitor
            • Grafana data source
            • Monolithic deployment
            • Reference
          • Deploy on Kubernetes with Tanka
      • Example setups
      • Validate deployment
        • Validate your local deployment
        • Validate Kubernetes deployment
      • Upgrade
      • Command line flags
    • Instrument for tracing
      • About instrumentation
      • Best practices
      • Set up instrumentation
      • Set up your collector
        • Grafana Alloy
          • Migrate to Alloy
          • Remote-write to Tempo
          • Automatic logging
        • Sampling
          • Add tail sampling policies and strategies
  • Configure
    • Tenant IDs
    • Manifest
    • Compression and encoding
    • Apache Parquet
    • Hosted storage
      • Amazon S3
      • Azure blob storage
      • Google Cloud Storage
    • Network options
      • Configure IPv6
      • Configure TLS
      • Configure sidecar proxies
    • Polling
    • Usage tracker
    • Use tracing data in Grafana
    • Anonymous usage reporting
  • Manage
    • Monitor Tempo
      • Set up monitoring
      • Use polling to monitor backend status
      • Query I/O and timestamp distance
    • Dedicated attribute columns
    • Tune search performance
    • Improve performance with caching
    • Manage advanced systems
      • Enable multi-tenancy
      • Cross-tenant query
      • Configure Tempo overrides through the user-configurable overrides API
      • Generic forwarding
      • Tune the consistent hash rings
      • Zone-aware ingesters
    • Tempo CLI
    • Parquet schema
    • Authentication
  • TraceQL
    • Learn about trace structure and TraceQL
    • Construct a query
    • Tune query performance
    • TraceQL queries in Grafana
  • Metrics from traces
    • TraceQL metrics
      • Configure TraceQL metrics
      • TraceQL metrics sampling
      • TraceQL metrics functions
    • Metrics-generator
      • Active series
      • Cardinality
      • Estimate cardinality
      • Multitenancy support
    • Span metrics
      • Use metrics-generator
      • Use Alloy
    • Service graphs
      • Enable service graphs
      • Create custom service graphs
      • Service graph view
      • Analyze service graph data
  • Troubleshoot
    • Sending traces
      • Distributor refusing spans
      • Grafana Alloy
    • Querying
      • Unable to find traces
      • Too many jobs in the queue
      • Bad blocks
      • Tag search
      • Response larger than the max
      • Long-running traces
      • Too many requests error
    • Metrics-generator
    • Out-of-memory errors
  • API
    • Metrics summary API
    • MCP server
    • Push spans with HTTP
  • Release notes
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Validate your Tempo deployment

To test your Tempo deployment, select one of the procedures below to test your Tempo deployment:

  • Validate your local Tempo deployment
    Instructions for validating your local Tempo deployment.
  • Validate Kubernetes deployment using a test application
    Validate your Tempo deployment on Kubernetes.

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