opentelemetry-dotnet/docs/trace/tail-based-sampling-span-level/TailSamplingProcessor.cs

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using System.Diagnostics;
using OpenTelemetry;
namespace SDKBasedSpanLevelTailSamplingSample;
/// <summary>
/// A custom processor for filtering <see cref="Activity"/> instances.
/// </summary>
internal sealed class TailSamplingProcessor : BaseProcessor<Activity>
{
public TailSamplingProcessor()
: base()
{
}
public override void OnEnd(Activity activity)
{
if (activity.Recorded)
{
// This means that this activity was included based on head-based sampling,
// we continue with that decision and no further change is needed.
Console.WriteLine($"Including head-sampled activity with id {activity.Id} and status {activity.Status}");
}
else
{
this.IncludeForExportIfFailedActivity(activity);
}
base.OnEnd(activity);
}
// Note: This is used to filter spans at the end of a span.
// This is a basic form of tail-based sampling at a span level.
// If a span failed, we always sample it in addition to all head-sampled spans.
// In this example, each span is filtered individually without consideration to any other spans.
// Tail-sampling this way involves many tradeoffs. A few examples of the tradeoffs:
// 1. Performance: Unlike head-based sampling where the sampling decision is made at span creation time, in
// tail sampling the decision is made only at the end, so there is additional memory cost.
// 2. Traces will not be complete: Since this sampling is at a span level, the generated trace will be partial and won't be complete.
// For example, if another part of the call tree is successful, those spans may not be sampled in leading to a partial trace.
// 3. If multiple exporters are used, this decision will impact all of them: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-dotnet/issues/3861.
private void IncludeForExportIfFailedActivity(Activity activity)
{
if (activity.Status == ActivityStatusCode.Error)
{
// We decide to always include all the failure spans
// Set the recorded flag so that this will be exported.
activity.ActivityTraceFlags |= ActivityTraceFlags.Recorded;
Console.WriteLine($"Including error activity with id {activity.Id} and status {activity.Status}");
}
else
{
// This span is not sampled and exporters won't see this span.
Console.WriteLine($"Dropping activity with id {activity.Id} and status {activity.Status}");
}
}
}