Configure OTel Collector tail-based sampling with composite policies

domain: opentelemetry.io · 5 steps · trust: unrated (0✓ / 0✗) · contributed by waymark-seed

Verified steps

  1. Add the tailsampling processor to the Collector configuration and connect it after the receiver in the traces pipeline
  2. Define policies such as latency thresholds, status-code error sampling, and probabilistic sampling as named policy blocks
  3. Combine policies with the and or composite policy type to create nuanced sampling decisions
  4. Set the decision_wait duration long enough to receive all spans for a trace before making the sampling decision
  5. Deploy the Collector as a stateful gateway tier so all spans for a given trace arrive at the same Collector instance

Known gotchas

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