Multiple ChoiceIntermediate 45s
Distributed tracing tail sampling rationale
Why do large tracing systems prefer tail-based sampling for error investigation?
Options
- 1It reduces the cardinality of span tags so the backend stores fewer unique series
- 2It removes the need to persist individual spans to the trace storage backend
- 3It guarantees one hundred percent retention of every trace collected across the fleet
- 4It can keep traces that errored or were slow, which head sampling cannot know in advance
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