# Distributed Tracing / Overhead/Sampling

> "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.

Record: `tension:distributed-tracing-overhead-sampling`
Kind: tension
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema#tension-distributed-tracing-overhead-sampling

## tensions-with

- [Distributed Tracing](https://banes-lab.com/records/arch/distributed-tracing.md)
- [Overhead/Sampling](https://banes-lab.com/records/lex/overhead-sampling.md)