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tempo
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.
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/tempo/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/tempo/SKILL.md # every project
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Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.

