infrastructure Oct 31, 2026
OpenTelemetry at Scale: Preventing High-Cardinality Traces from Inflating APM Bills by 10x
A production guide to managing OpenTelemetry telemetry costs. Learn how cardinality explosions and trace over-sampling inflate Datadog, Honeycomb, and New Relic bills, and how to configure tail-based sampling.
By Elena Rostova Read guide →