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Reducing OTel trace Ingest to Grail

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nryan
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‎19 Feb 2026 02:19 PM - last edited on ‎23 Feb 2026 08:38 AM by Community Team

Is it possible to define sampling rules for OTel traces prior to ingest and with the goal of reducing ingest costs?

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Julius_Loman
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‎19 Feb 2026 03:06 PM

You can only drop spans in openpipeline, but you will pay for ingest anyway.  For sampling you should place otel collectors before ingesting to Dynatrace.

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