Deploying Tempo Distributed Tracing Backend on Ubuntu 24.04

Tempo is an open-source, high-scale distributed tracing backend from Grafana Labs that ingests trace spans over Jaeger, OpenTelemetry, and Zipkin protocols. It requires only object storage and pairs natively with Grafana for trace visualization. This guide deploys Tempo using Docker Compose with Traefik handling automatic HTTPS, and verifies the backend through its status endpoints. By the end, you'll have Tempo accepting trace spans over HTTPS at your domain.

Set Up the Directory Structure

1. Create the project directory structure:

$ mkdir -p ~/tempo-tracing/{tempo-data,tempo-config}

$ cd ~/tempo-tracing