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.
Use OpenTelemetry Collector processors to manage your data volume by filtering span events and other data.
Understand terminology used when discussing sampling techniques, and explore use cases and trade-offs when head sampling and tail sampling.
Manage your data volume by performing deterministic head sampling with the sampler included in OpenTelemetry SDKs and Honeycomb distributions.
Explore the capabilities of Honeycomb Refinery, Honeycomb’s trace-aware, tail-based, stand-alone sampling proxy.
