diff --git a/example/docker-compose/local-distributed/docker-compose.yaml b/example/docker-compose/local-distributed/docker-compose.yaml
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+version: "3"
+services:
+
+  distributor:
+    image: tempo:latest
+    command: "-target=distributor -config.file=/etc/tempo.yaml"
+    volumes:
+      - ./tempo-distributed.yaml:/etc/tempo.yaml
+      - ./tempo-data:/tmp/tempo
+    ports:
+      - "14268"  # jaeger ingest
+      - "3200"   # tempo
+      - "7946"
+      - "55680"  # otlp grpc
+      - "55681"  # otlp http
+
+  ingester-0:
+    image: tempo:latest
+    command: "-target=ingester -config.file=/etc/tempo.yaml"
+    restart: always
+    volumes:
+      - ./tempo-distributed.yaml:/etc/tempo.yaml
+      - ./tempo-data0:/tmp/tempo
+    ports:
+      - "14268"  # jaeger ingest
+      - "3200"   # tempo
+      - "7946"
+    depends_on:
+      - distributor
+
+  ingester-1:
+    image: tempo:latest
+    command: "-target=ingester -config.file=/etc/tempo.yaml"
+    restart: always
+    volumes:
+      - ./tempo-distributed.yaml:/etc/tempo.yaml
+      - ./tempo-data1:/tmp/tempo
+    ports:
+      - "14268"  # jaeger ingest
+      - "3200"   # tempo
+      - "7946"
+    depends_on:
+      - distributor
+
+  ingester-2:
+    image: tempo:latest
+    command: "-target=ingester -config.file=/etc/tempo.yaml"
+    restart: always
+    volumes:
+      - ./tempo-distributed.yaml:/etc/tempo.yaml
+      - ./tempo-data2:/tmp/tempo
+    ports:
+      - "14268"  # jaeger ingest
+      - "3200"   # tempo
+      - "7946"
+    depends_on:
+      - distributor
+
+  tempo:
+    image: tempo:latest
+    command: "-target=query-frontend -config.file=/etc/tempo.yaml"
+    volumes:
+      - ./tempo-distributed.yaml:/etc/tempo.yaml
+      - ./tempo-data:/tmp/tempo
+    ports:
+      - "14268"  # jaeger ingest
+      - "3200"   # tempo
+      - "7946"
+      - "55680"  # otlp grpc
+      - "55681"  # otlp http
+    depends_on:
+      - ingester-0
+      - ingester-1
+      - ingester-2
+
+  querier:
+    image: tempo:latest
+    command: "-target=querier -config.file=/etc/tempo.yaml"
+    volumes:
+      - ./tempo-distributed.yaml:/etc/tempo.yaml
+      - ./tempo-data:/tmp/tempo
+    ports:
+      - "14268"  # jaeger ingest
+      - "3200"   # tempo
+      - "7946"
+      - "55680"  # otlp grpc
+      - "55681"  # otlp http
+    depends_on:
+      - ingester-0
+      - ingester-1
+      - ingester-2
+
+  synthetic-load-generator:
+    image: omnition/synthetic-load-generator:1.0.25
+    volumes:
+      - ../shared/load-generator.json:/etc/load-generator.json
+    environment:
+      - TOPOLOGY_FILE=/etc/load-generator.json
+      - JAEGER_COLLECTOR_URL=http://distributor:14268
+    depends_on:
+      - distributor
+      - ingester-0
+      - ingester-1
+
+  prometheus:
+    image: prom/prometheus:latest
+    command: [ "--config.file=/etc/prometheus.yaml" ]
+    volumes:
+      - ../shared/prometheus.yaml:/etc/prometheus.yaml
+    ports:
+      - "9090:9090"
+
+  grafana:
+    image: grafana/grafana:7.5.7
+    volumes:
+      - ../shared/grafana-datasources.yaml:/etc/grafana/provisioning/datasources/datasources.yaml
+    environment:
+      - GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ENABLED=true
+      - GF_AUTH_ANONYMOUS_ORG_ROLE=Admin
+      - GF_AUTH_DISABLE_LOGIN_FORM=true
+    ports:
+      - "3000:3000"
diff --git a/example/docker-compose/local-distributed/tempo-distributed.yaml b/example/docker-compose/local-distributed/tempo-distributed.yaml
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+server:
+  http_listen_port: 3200
+
+distributor:
+  receivers:                           # this configuration will listen on all ports and protocols that tempo is capable of.
+    jaeger:                            # the receives all come from the OpenTelemetry collector.  more configuration information can
+      protocols:                       # be found there: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/tree/main/receiver
+        thrift_http:                   #
+        grpc:                          # for a production deployment you should only enable the receivers you need!
+        thrift_binary:
+        thrift_compact:
+    zipkin:
+    otlp:
+      protocols:
+        http:
+        grpc:
+    opencensus:
+
+ingester:
+  trace_idle_period: 10s               # the length of time after a trace has not received spans to consider it complete and flush it
+  max_block_bytes: 1_000_000           # cut the head block when it hits this size or ...
+  max_block_duration: 5m               #   this much time passes
+  lifecycler:
+    ring:
+      replication_factor: 3
+
+memberlist:
+  abort_if_cluster_join_fails: false
+  bind_port: 7946
+  join_members:
+  - ingester-0:7946
+  - ingester-1:7946
+  - ingester-2:7946
+
+compactor:
+  compaction:
+    block_retention: 1h
+    compacted_block_retention: 10m
+
+query_frontend:
+    max_retries: 99
+    query_shards: 2
+
+querier:
+  frontend_worker:
+    frontend_address: tempo:9095
+
+storage:
+  trace:
+    backend: local                     # backend configuration to use
+    block:
+      bloom_filter_false_positive: .05 # bloom filter false positive rate.  lower values create larger filters but fewer false positives
+      index_downsample_bytes: 1000     # number of bytes per index record
+      encoding: zstd                   # block encoding/compression.  options: none, gzip, lz4-64k, lz4-256k, lz4-1M, lz4, snappy, zstd
+    wal:
+      path: /tmp/tempo/wal             # where to store the the wal locally
+      encoding: none                   # wal encoding/compression.  options: none, gzip, lz4-64k, lz4-256k, lz4-1M, lz4, snappy, zstd
+    local:
+      path: /tmp/tempo/blocks
+    pool:
+      max_workers: 100                 # worker pool determines the number of parallel requests to the object store backend
+      queue_depth: 10000