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What's New in Tempo 3.1

Grafana — Sep 30, 2026 — news

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This video announces Grafana Tempo 3.1, covering new features including query-based trace redaction using TraceQL, arithmetic support in TraceQL metrics queries for calculating error rates, and experimental span pruning to collapse repetitive leaf spans. It also details TLS and four new SASL mechanisms for Kafka client connections, plus vParquet5 as the new default block format. Ideal for DevOps engineers and observability professionals using Tempo.