The service specifically focuses on a managed, standards-compliant ingestion backend for distributed tracing based on OpenTelemetry (Grafana Tempo). It deliberately avoids proprietary agent architectures. The focus is on technically generating cross-signal correlations (traces to Loki logs and Mimir metrics) within a sovereign infrastructure, rather than building closed vendor silos.

Data flows remain, without exception, within the European IONOS CLOUD region you have defined (e.g., Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, Logroño, Birmingham, London). Since IONOS CLOUD is a European company with no parent company outside Europe, its infrastructure is governed exclusively by EU law. Unauthorized access to data via extraterritorial laws such as the U.S. CLOUD Act is systematically precluded.

No. The deployment, scaling, security, and patch management of the Tempo backend are handled entirely by IONOS CLOUD as routine tasks. System access logging and auditing are performed automatically in the background, relieving your administration team of the burden of day-to-day system maintenance.

The only requirement is support for the standardized OpenTelemetry protocol (OTLP). There is no need to learn any proprietary libraries. Integration is reproducible via open APIs and standardized SDKs. For older system components (e.g., Jaeger or Zipkin), the OpenTelemetry Collector can be used as a standards-compliant translation layer.