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description: Use best practices to plan how you implement tracing.
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  - grafana
  - tempo
  - best practices
  - tracing
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    - cloud
    - enterprise
    - oss
menuTitle: Best practices
title: Best practices for tracing
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# Best practices for tracing

This page provides some general best practices for tracing.

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