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N_Lens ◴[31 Aug 25 10:41 UTC] No.45082128[source]▶

OTEL as a set of standards is admirable and ambitious, though in my experience actual implementation differs significantly between different vendors and they all seem to overcomplicate it.

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eurekin ◴[31 Aug 25 12:31 UTC] No.45082689[source]▶

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Plus that tens of terabytes of data you have to store for a week worth of traces

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c2h5oh ◴[31 Aug 25 14:42 UTC] No.45083511[source]▶

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That's why you sample just enough instead of storing everything

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1. eurekin ◴[31 Aug 25 15:00 UTC] No.45083681[source]▶

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We do. 0.5%

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