#Opentelemetry

3 articles tagged with "opentelemetry"

🧩 The Sampling Bug Nobody Notices: When Half Your Trace Goes Missing

You configured sampling on every service. Each one is working exactly as designed. And yet your traces keep showing up with chunks missing, like a comic book where someone tore out every third page. Here's why, and how consistent sampling fixes it.

Jul 24, 2026

5 min read

observabilitydistributed-tracing

🎣 Tail-Based Sampling: How to Stop Throwing Away the One Trace You Actually Needed

Head-based sampling decides whether to keep a trace before it even knows if anything went wrong. Tail-based sampling waits for the plot twist. Here's why that difference matters and how to actually run it.

Jul 03, 2026

5 min read

observabilitymetrics

🔭 Stop Logging Everything: When to Reach for Metrics, Logs, or Traces

Drowning in logs but still blind in production? Metrics, logs, and traces each answer a different question — learn which tool fits which problem before your on-call rotation breaks you.

Jun 12, 2026

6 min read