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Grafana Tempo: Setting Up Distributed Tracing and Integrating Loki + Prometheus in a Single Grafana
I once spent 3 hours debugging a slow request without finding the bottleneck — that's what pushed me to set up Grafana Tempo. This article walks through installing Tempo with Docker Compose, connecting it to Loki and Prometheus, and configuring OpenTelemetry from Python so that from a single trace ID you can jump straight to logs and metrics in just a few clicks.