# Grafana/Tempo: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 5 judge labels across 2 categories by 5 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/grafana-tempo

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Telemetry pipelines](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/telemetry-pipelines/index.md) | 2% | 9 | 0% | 2 |
| [Application performance monitoring](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/operations/application-performance-monitoring/index.md) | 0% | 27 | 0% | 3 |

## What the models said for it

- "Traces Storage: Grafana Tempo ... Writes traces directly to Object Storage (S3/GCS)" (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Telemetry pipelines)
- "Tempo is the trace backend in the Grafana observability stack." (Muse Glimmer 30B, Telemetry pipelines)
- "Cost-effective tracing at scale" (Kimi K2, APM)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Grafana/Tempo, from 4 of the 7 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- grafana.com: 3 (its own site)
- github.com: 2
- opentelemetry.io: 2
- arxiv.org: 1
- betterstack.com: 1
- bugsink.com: 1
- buildkite.com: 1
- chronosphere.io: 1
- cloudnuro.ai: 1
- cloudraft.io: 1

### Pages cited

- https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.01955.pdf: 1
- https://betterstack.com/community/comparisons/opentelemetry-tools: 1
- https://bugsink.com/blog/you-dont-need-application-performance-monitoring: 1
- https://buildkite.com/docs/pipelines/best-practices/monitoring-and-observability: 1
- https://chronosphere.io/learn/telemetry-pipeline-operational-guide: 1
- https://cloudnuro.ai/blog/top-10-application-performance-management-apm-tools-for-it-governance: 1
- https://cloudraft.io/observability-consulting: 1
- https://crozdesk.com/compare/dynatrace-vs-new-relic-vs-datadog: 1

## In its own words

What Grafana/Tempo's own pages state, read 2026-10-06. Stated by the vendor, not checked by the index.

- Positioning: Fully-managed, easy-to-use, highly-scalable, and cost-effective distributed tracing backend. (https://grafana.com/pricing/)
- For: engineering teams (https://grafana.com/products/cloud/)
- Price stated: free, pro, enterprise (https://grafana.com/pricing/)
- Starting price: $0.05/GB Processing (https://grafana.com/pricing/)
- Free plan or trial: The Free Forever plan (https://grafana.com/)
- Certifications: FedRAMP, PCI DSS, GDPR, SOC 2, ISO 27001
- Hosting: Public Cloud, Federal Cloud, Bring Your Own Cloud
- Customers named: BlackRock, Pegasystems, Lovable, LATAM Airlines, Delivery Hero, ASOS, Sailpoint, Mux

## What it publishes

Every page grafana.com exposes, read 2026-09-29: 24060 addresses. By kind, pages and the last 90 days:

- blog: 1964 pages, 13 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-09-14
- case study: 2 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2021-04-10
- webinar or virtual event: 175 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- conference or event: 537 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-11
- report or ebook: 78 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- comparison: 24 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest 2025-09-24
- template or tool: 21 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- glossary or explainer: 140 pages, 0 in the last 90 days, latest undated
- podcast or video: 6 pages, 1 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-07-10
- news or press: 79 pages, 5 in the last 90 days, latest 2026-08-01
- Recent: 2026-09-14 blog: Digital experience monitoring with grafana cloud session replay synthetic checks and faster investigations https://grafana.com/blog/digital-experience-monitoring-with-grafana-cloud-session-replay-synthetic-checks-and-faster-investigations/
- Recent: 2026-09-10 blog: Synthetic monitoring labels update https://grafana.com/blog/synthetic-monitoring-labels-update/
- Recent: 2026-09-09 blog: How to monitor cypress tests with grafana cloud https://grafana.com/blog/how-to-monitor-cypress-tests-with-grafana-cloud/
- Recent: 2026-08-27 blog: Identify anomalies outlier detection forecasting how grafana cloud uses ai ml to make observability easier https://grafana.com/blog/identify-anomalies-outlier-detection-forecasting-how-grafana-cloud-uses-ai-ml-to-make-observability-easier/
- Recent: 2026-08-27 blog: How to measure and improve instrumentation quality for better full stack observability https://grafana.com/blog/how-to-measure-and-improve-instrumentation-quality-for-better-full-stack-observability/
- Recent: 2026-08-25 blog: The grafana ai sdk for go a shared foundation for building ai applications https://grafana.com/blog/the-grafana-ai-sdk-for-go-a-shared-foundation-for-building-ai-applications/

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.