The latest release of Grafana Tempo brings new TraceQL features and a number of operational and performance improvements related to ingester memory, tag value lookups, and more.

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Grafana Tempo 2.7 introduces enhancements including new TraceQL metrics functions and operational improvements aimed at optimizing performance and resource usage. Key updates include better query frontend handling, reduced ingester memory usage, and faster TraceQL query execution. Additionally, several breaking changes related to OpenTelemetry dependency, regular expression matcher, and gRPC compression settings are highlighted. The future update 'RF1 rearchitecture' promises further improvement.

Grafana Tempo 2.7 release: new TraceQL metrics functions, operational improvements, and more!