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Trace Sampling Rate Calculator

Spans per second times bytes per span is your daily ingest. Price it in full, then divide your budget by that cost to get the keep rate you can actually afford.

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Spans per second times bytes per span is your daily ingest. Price it, then compute the keep rate that fits the budget. Defaults ingest 50k spans a second at 2 KB against a $20k monthly budget.

Live result · Unsampled monthly cost · Full-fidelity ingest, priced before sampling.
Monthly cost
$79,626
per month · spans × bytes × price
Ingest mix
  • Kept
  • Discarded
Runs locally · No data sent
Daily ingest
8,847 GB / day
gigabytes per day
Keep rate to fit budget
25.1% keep rate
share worth keeping

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