Practical OpenTelemetry: Adopting Open Observability Standards Across Your Organization

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D. Gomez BlancoPractical OpenTelemetryhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9075-0_10

10. Sampling and Common Deployment Models

Daniel Gomez Blanco¹  

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Edinburgh, UK

 

The flexibility of OpenTelemetry Collectors cannot be overstated. As we saw in Chapter 9, they can cater to many custom telemetry transport scenarios using different telemetry data processing techniques and deployment patterns. In this chapter, we’ll explore some of the most common deployment models in cloud-native environments, also taking into consideration services instrumented with and without OpenTelemetry. With these tools in mind, we’ll then explore some advanced trace sampling techniques, ...