Documentation for automated readers
A curated documentation index is available at: https://grafana.com/llms.txt
A complete documentation index is available at: https://grafana.com/llms-full.txt
These indexes can help with page discovery before fetching individual documents.
This page is also available in Markdown, which may be easier for automated readers and AI tools to parse than HTML. The Markdown version is available at https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/v11.0/datasources/tempo/span-filters.md, or by sending Accept: text/markdown to https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/v11.0/datasources/tempo/span-filters/. For broader documentation discovery, the curated index is available at https://grafana.com/llms.txt and the complete index is available at https://grafana.com/llms-full.txt.
Important: This documentation is about an older version. It's relevant only to the release noted, many of the features and functions have been updated or replaced. Please view the current version.
Span Filters
Using span filters, you can filter your spans in the trace timeline viewer. The more filters you add, the more specific are the filtered spans.

You can add one or more of the following filters:
- Service name
- Span name
- Duration
- Tags (which include tags, process tags, and log fields)
To only show the spans you have matched, select the Show matches only toggle.