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How we fixed head-based sampling in OpenTelemetry
18 March 2026
OpenTelemetryAPM

How we fixed head-based sampling in OpenTelemetry

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

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