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Grafana Tempo · on a Docker VPS New release · v3.1.1

Trace your distributed requests, in France

🔒 VPS only

An affordable and scalable distributed tracing backend powered by Grafana Tempo, installed and maintained by you on your VPS. Visualize the path of each request across your microservices, on a French infrastructure.

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Hosted in FranceDistributed TracingOpenTelemetry & JaegerGDPR CompliantVerified publisher
Overview

What is Grafana Tempo?

Grafana Tempo is an open-source, high-volume, and cost-effective distributed tracing backend developed by Grafana Labs. It allows you to collect, store, and explore traces from your applications, i.e., the complete path of a request across multiple services in a distributed or microservices architecture.

Tempo's key strength lies in its cost model: unlike solutions that index all data, Tempo only indexes the trace ID and stores the rest on cheap object storage (S3-compatible). This allows you to retain massive volumes of traces at a controlled cost while remaining highly scalable.

Tempo is compatible with major instrumentation standards — OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin, and OpenCensus — and integrates natively with Grafana for trace exploration using its TraceQL query language. Coupled with Loki (logs) and Prometheus (metrics), it completes Grafana's observability stack, providing the essential logs / metrics / traces correlation for diagnosing complex systems.

Compatible offers

Host Grafana Tempo at DINAO

No managed container for Grafana Tempo: this application is installed on a VPS hosted in France (1 vCPU / 512 Mo / 5 Go minimum).

Grafana Tempo needs a level of access to the machine that the managed container, shared between several customers, does not give. Two VPS hosted in France: DINAO installs and manages it for you, or you administer it yourself.

Technical reason: bind mount of a host path (named volumes only in the managed offer).

Option 2 The simplest

Managed VPS with Docker and the application pre-installed

from €28,70 /month excl. VAT

  • Grafana Tempo installed by DINAO when you order
  • The machine is yours alone: the folders Grafana Tempo needs are created on it
  • System and Docker managed by DINAO, monitoring included
  • Priority support included (2-hour response time, DINAO business days and hours)
  • Stated, capped resources (2 vCPU, 2 GB, 20 GB): beyond that, a larger size is offered
  • Application updates on request
  • Backups as an option (€20,00 excl. VAT/month)
  • No administrator access to the machine

To use Grafana Tempo without installing or administering anything.

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Option 3 100% self-managed

VPS Docker

from €11,00 /month excl. VAT

  • Your virtual machine, full administrator access
  • Docker pre-installed, control panel of your choice
  • Free to install Grafana Tempo or any other application, including those that drive Docker
  • Delivered empty: you install and maintain Grafana Tempo yourself (or DINAO installs it on quotation)
  • No backup by default (optional: €20,00 excl. VAT/month)
  • No management service by default (optional from €55,00 excl. VAT/month); monitoring as an option

By default you keep full control; but without an additional service, you handle everything: maintenance, configuration, deployment.

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CriterionManaged VPS with Docker and the application pre-installedVPS Docker
Who installs Grafana TempoDINAO, when you orderNobody by default: VPS delivered with Docker and, at your choice, Portainer / Dockge, without the application. You install it, or DINAO on quotation
Application updatesDINAO, on requestYou
System and DockerDINAO, without a control panel: one VPS, one applicationYou: no management service by default (optional: €55,00 or €75,00 excl. VAT/month, business days)
BackupsOptional: €20,00 excl. VAT/month for 7 days (100 GB quota)None by default; optional: €20,00 excl. VAT/month for 7 days (100 GB quota)
MonitoringIncludedOptional: from €1,00 to €10,00 excl. VAT/month
SupportPriority handling included (2-hour response time, DINAO business days and hours, no guaranteed resolution time)Best effort
IsolationA virtual machine of your own, for this application onlyA virtual machine of your own
ResourcesSized for the OS, Docker and Grafana Tempo: 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 20 GB, stated as a cap; beyond that, a larger size is offeredRecommended size for Grafana Tempo: 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 50 GB; can be extended
Administrator access (root)NoYes
Applications that require privileged access to the machineYes: the machine is yours aloneYes
Starting price€28,70 excl. VAT/month€11,00 excl. VAT/month (VPS only, without the application)

Options 2 and 3 sized for Grafana Tempo (application requirements plus the system and Docker): 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 20 GB for option 2, 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 50 GB for option 3, whose base is larger.

Under the hood

Technical details

vCPU
1 vCPU
ideal : 2 vCPU
Memory
512 Mo
ideal : 2 Go
Disk
5 Go
ideal : 50 Go
Image : grafana/tempo:2.10.7 Registry : docker.io Services : tempo Ports : 3200:3200, 4317:4317, 4318:4318
Frequently asked questions

You might be wondering…

About Grafana Tempo 6 questions

What is distributed tracing?

Distributed tracing follows the path of a request through all the services it traverses (frontend, API, database, message queues…). Each trace reveals latencies and bottlenecks, essential for diagnosing a microservices architecture.

Why is Tempo cost-effective?

Tempo only indexes the trace ID and stores the rest on cheap object storage (S3-compatible). This allows you to retain very large volumes of traces without the cost of solutions that index everything.

Does my existing instrumentation work?

Yes. Tempo is compatible with major standards: OpenTelemetry, Jaeger, Zipkin, and OpenCensus. You connect your current instrumentation without rewriting everything.

How are traces visualized?

Traces are explored directly in Grafana, with possible correlation to your logs (Loki) and metrics (Prometheus). DINAO can connect Tempo to your Grafana instance.

Where are my traces stored?

On DINAO's French infrastructure. Your observability data remains on French territory, in compliance with GDPR.

Is this application tested before it is offered?

This application has not yet passed our automatic deployment test. It can still be installed, but we invite you to contact us before ordering: we will then test it as a priority. The deployment template used was last updated on 3 July 2026. Each new version released by the publisher triggers this test again: the date above therefore follows the version actually offered.

Option 2Option 3 On a VPS 7 questions

One answer per option: the two VPS offers do not cover the same things.

Who installs Grafana Tempo on a VPS?

Managed VPSDINAO, when you order

VPS DockerNobody by default: the VPS is delivered with Docker, without the application. You install it, or DINAO on quotation

Who updates Grafana Tempo on a VPS?

Managed VPSDINAO, on request

VPS DockerYou

Is the VPS managed?

Managed VPSYes: DINAO manages the system and Docker, without a control panel (one VPS, one application). Monitoring is included

VPS DockerNot by default: you manage the system and Docker. The management service and monitoring can be added as options when ordering

Is my data backed up on a VPS?

Managed VPSAs an option: backup is added when ordering

VPS DockerNone by default; backup can be added as an option when ordering

Do I get administrator (root) access to the VPS?

Managed VPSNo

VPS DockerYes

Do you provide on-call support outside business hours on a VPS?

Managed VPSNo: monitoring is included, interventions take place on business days

VPS DockerNo: monitoring is an option, support is best effort

In which data centre is my service hosted?

In France, in DINAO's private racks within two third-party data centres: Free Pro in Marseille (MAR02) and Euclyde DC1 in Sophia-Antipolis. The operator provides the building, power, cooling and physical security; DINAO operates everything inside its racks, entirely and independently.