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Re: OTel isn’t going well

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Post by pphysch » Thu, Aug 27, 2026, 6:01 AM UTC

dengolius wrote: post #129

pphysch wrote: post #100

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There is, it's called VictoriaMetrics/Logs/Traces. https://victoriametrics.com/

Would you like to share your success story using this software?

I believe I first deployed VictoriaMetrics almost 5 years ago and have had zero regrets. Was also evaluating Thanos and InfluxDB at the time.

The lead dev is super passionate about straightforward software that just works, and it shows.

Later my coworker deployed VictoriaLogs in about 15 minutes, added it to our syslog targets. Night and day compared to Elastic. Use both of them probably every day through Grafana.

Re: OTel isn’t going well

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Post by jaen » Sun, Aug 30, 2026, 8:18 AM UTC

Flamkuchlo wrote: post #68

jaen wrote: post #62

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What? All of this has been solved for a long time. How do you think hyperscalers do this? Search keyword: "Adaptive sampling"

Adaptive sampling is not tracing, its sampling. Tracing traces a particular event. I'm quite aware of the difference between sampling, tracing and profiling.

No... Adaptive sampling is a family of statistical methods to choose an appropriate decimation strategy for arbitrary events based on real-world occurrence distributions.

It can be applied to tracing, metrics, logging ("sampling") and profiling.

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