5 articles tagged with "opentelemetry"
Your request touches six services and dies somewhere in the middle. Logs tell you nothing because nobody agreed on a request ID. Here's how OpenTelemetry turns that mystery into a single, followable story.
Head-based sampling flips a coin before your request even starts. Tail-based sampling waits for the whole story, then decides who deserves a spot in your trace backend — and it changes everything about which bugs you actually see.
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.
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.
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.