topic Reducing OTel trace Ingest to Grail in Open Q&A https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Reducing-OTel-trace-Ingest-to-Grail/m-p/295003#M38679 <P>Is it possible to define sampling rules for OTel traces prior to ingest and with the goal of reducing ingest costs?</P> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:38:36 GMT nryan 2026-02-23T08:38:36Z Reducing OTel trace Ingest to Grail https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Reducing-OTel-trace-Ingest-to-Grail/m-p/295003#M38679 <P>Is it possible to define sampling rules for OTel traces prior to ingest and with the goal of reducing ingest costs?</P> Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:38:36 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Reducing-OTel-trace-Ingest-to-Grail/m-p/295003#M38679 nryan 2026-02-23T08:38:36Z Re: Reducing OTel trace Ingest to Grail https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Reducing-OTel-trace-Ingest-to-Grail/m-p/295004#M38680 <P>You can only drop spans in openpipeline, but you will pay for ingest anyway.&nbsp; For sampling you should place otel collectors before ingesting to Dynatrace.</P> Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:06:18 GMT https://community.dynatrace.com/t5/Open-Q-A/Reducing-OTel-trace-Ingest-to-Grail/m-p/295004#M38680 Julius_Loman 2026-02-19T15:06:18Z