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SREcon24 Americas - 99.99% of Your Traces Are (Probably) Trash

Paige Cruz, Chronosphere

Distributed tracing is still finding its footing in many organizations today, despite being an industry concept for 14 years! One challenge to overcome is managing the data volume. Keeping 100% of traces is expensive and unnecessary - enter sampling. From head-based, tail-based or mixing and matching there is a buffet of configuration options available with OpenTelemetry. Let’s review the tradeoffs associated with different sampling configurations and their …

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