Tag
trace-storage
- Jul 6, 2026 Storing Traces: Two Access Patterns That Cannot Share One Index Why a trace store must support both point lookup by trace identifier and time-range search by service, how indexes serve each, and where retention and cost force the two apart. 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