Tempo offers amazing performance, but there are still cases where TraceQL queries take a long time to return results. This could be due to a multitude of reasons from the complexity of the query, amount of choices stored, or the timeframe selected. See how to navigate your query results more quickly, with query results streaming, available as an experimental feature in Grafana version 10.1.

TraceQL documentation: https://grafana.com/docs/tempo/latest/traceql/

Grafana 10.1 release: https://grafana.com/blog/2023/08/24/grafana-10.1-release-all-the-latest-features/