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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.
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Monitoring Distributed Applications with OpenTelemetry and Jaeger: Finding Performance Bottlenecks Through Distributed Traces

Prometheus can tell you your system is slow, but finding which service in a microservices chain is the actual bottleneck requires distributed tracing. This guide walks through setting up OpenTelemetry and Jaeger, instrumenting a Python application, and reading traces to diagnose performance issues — based on real-world experience.