traceloop / traceloop/openllmetry

🚀 Feature: Support for trace sampling

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Description

Which component is this feature for?

Traceloop SDK

🔖 Feature description

Traces should have support for setting sampling rate.

🎤 Why is this feature needed ?

Sampling rate helps control the trace volume and improves performance for very high throughput or latency sensitive applications. Also, limiting trace volume helps control cost.

✌️ How do you aim to achieve this?

Similar to https://langfuse.com/docs/tracing-features/sampling or via configuration

🔄️ Additional Information

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Research direction

No files, tests, or specific entry points are named. Start by locating the Traceloop SDK's tracing configuration and trace creation flow, then review the linked Langfuse sampling approach. Done should mean callers can configure a sampling rate and trace volume is reduced accordingly without breaking tracing.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
observability
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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