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Observability Sampling Strategies

Sample telemetry without losing signal

Sampling strategies (head, tail, dynamic) reduce telemetry cost while keeping important events; sample more on errors/latency, less on healthy traffic, and coordinate IDs across logs/traces for correlation.

Pick Strategy

Head for uniform, tail/dynamic to keep errors/latency outliers.

Correlate

Keep trace/log IDs; ensure sampled traces align with metrics.

Tune

Adjust rates per service/route; review cost vs signal regularly.

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