I see tail based sampling is work in progress is upfront sam

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I see tail based sampling is work in progress is upfront sampling supported Looking for ways to limit ingested traces

Pranay · Answer

< Vignesh Rajkumar> Yes upfront sampling should be possible Just curious what are your main use cases for limiting ingested traces

Vignesh Rajkumar · Answer

We have a 500GB EBS storage configured for Signoz instance The space ran out in matter of hours We d like to trace 1 of every 10 request the instrumented application gets

Pranay · Answer

I see < Ankit Nayan> Do we have the steps to configure otel collector sampling documented somewhere

Ankit Nayan · Answer

< Vignesh Rajkumar> you can use at k8s infra chart After that all the data received and APM metrics will be sampled by that ratio

Ankit Nayan · Answer

you should also consider setting up s3 as cold storage <https signoz io docs userguide retention period configuring cold storage amazon s3>

Ankit Nayan · Answer

you can also disable `TIMESTAMP SORT FEATURE` and `DURATION SORT FEATURE` if you don t use them It should help in reducing size to almost half <https signoz io docs operate feature flags >

Vignesh Rajkumar · Answer

Thanks for the Support < Pranaay Saini> ^ < Ankit Nayan> Will have a look into these