Tag
tail-based-sampling
- Feb 17, 2024 Routing Traces Through a Collector Pipeline by Trace ID Why a stateful tracing stage cannot sit behind a round-robin load balancer, how consistent hashing keeps one trace on one worker, and what happens when the worker set changes. observability
- Jun 15, 2022 Tail-Based Sampling: Buffering Traces Until the Outcome Is Known Why deciding after the trace completes requires holding spans in memory, how the buffering window and the trace-ID routing rule interact, and where the pipeline loses traces it intended to keep. observability