Grafana Tempo MCP

A Model Context Protocol server for Grafana Tempo that lets AI assistants query and analyze distributed tracing data. Agents can search traces with TraceQL, fetch a trace by ID, and inspect spans to investigate latency and errors across services during incident analysis.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "grafana-tempo": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [],
      "env": {
        "TEMPO_URL": "<YOUR_TEMPO_URL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "query"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "TraceQL query expression"
    },
    "time_range": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Optional time window to search over"
    }
  }
}

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "trace_id"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "trace_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The trace identifier"
    }
  }
}