Distributed Tracing / Overhead/Sampling

Kind: tension

Record: tension:distributed-tracing-overhead-sampling

Canonical: Schema

"distributed-tracing" (observability layer) is traded against "Overhead/Sampling" (observability layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Overhead/Sampling" and choosing an explicit operating point.

Listed in Tensions, after Causation ID / Metadata Verbosity and before SLO/SLI / Feature Velocity.

In tension with

• Distributed Tracing
• Overhead/Sampling

Mechanism

• irreducible-tradeoff

Linked from

• Observability / Auditability / Traceability
• Resolution mechanisms