Practical distributed tracing from the field (Feb 2026 Tempo Community Call)
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Ever wondered what actually happens when a request travels through a chain of services, and how to debug it when something breaks?
In this episode, we sit down with field engineers who onboard customers and solve real tracing problems every day. It’s practical, opinionated, and grounded in real-world experience.
What we cover:
- Distributed tracing basics, with a live demo of services talking to each other using Tempo
- How to use traces in practice: debugging flows, service graphs, and SLIs
- Cost control strategies that scale: head and tail-based sampling
💬 A great opportunity to ask questions and learn from the field.
This is a special Tempo Community Call edition where we’re going to talk about application instrumentation with OpenTelemetry! We’ll be joined by Grafana Field Engineers who know all the pain points - and how to avoid them.
This event will be livestreamed on YouTube and published on the same link after the fact: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lMHX8CRHsc
