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How we fixed head-based sampling in OpenTelemetry

Source: Elastic Observability Labs

Link to story: https://www.elastic.co/observability-labs/blog/how-we-fixed-head-based-sampling-in-opentelemetry

How we fixed head-based sampling in OpenTelemetry — Elastic Observability Labs

Head-based sampling can break throughput charts without sampling metadata. Learn how OpenTelemetry tracestate probability fields fixed this in Java, JS, and Python.