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Manage Data Volume

Managing your data volume will help you keep costs predictable and manageable, and keep Honeycomb’s queries speedy. Use our recommended techniques and tooling to reduce the size of your data, optimize your storage capacity, and improve your performance and scalability.

Filtering 

Filter Processor for OpenTelemetry Collector

Use the OpenTelemetry Collector filter processor to filter telemetry data.

Sampling 

Sampling

Overview of sampling and sampling techniques.

When to Sample

Why and when to sample your data, and when to use head sampling and tail sampling.

Sampled Data in Honeycomb

Understand how Honeycomb handles sampled data.

Sample with Honeycomb Refinery

Explore the capabilities of Honeycomb Refinery, a trace-aware, stand-alone tail-based sampling proxy.

Reduce Metrics Volume 

Manage Metrics Events

How to manage metrics event volume and send Honeycomb the metrics data you care about.

Metrics-to-Event Mapping

How Honeycomb stores metrics and associated metadata in events within our columnar data store.