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by cwp 1025 days ago
Not the GP, but:

Imagine you're sampling successful traces at, say, 1%, but sending all error traces. If your error rate is low, maybe also 1%, your trace volume will be about 2% of your overall request volume.

Then you push an update that introduces a bug and now all requests fail with an error, and all those traces get sampled. Your trace volume just increased 50x, and your infrastructure may not be prepared for that.