How volumetric sampling makes the most of your trace budget in Grafana Cloud
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Summary
Grafana Labs published a blog post on volumetric sampling for trace budgets in Grafana Cloud, describing how most traces repeat the same healthy, fast, successful request and that organizations commonly downsample traces to cut costs.
Key facts
- Grafana Labs published the post on 2026-08-13.
- The post covers volumetric sampling for trace budgets in Grafana Cloud.
- Most traces in a busy system describe the same healthy, fast, successful request.
- Most organizations downsample traces to cut costs.
Why it matters
Teams paying for trace storage and ingestion can see that repeated healthy requests drive much of the data volume, so sampling choices directly affect observability spend.
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- Grafana LabsOfficial · PrimaryHow volumetric sampling makes the most of your trace budget in Grafana Cloud · By Yuna VerheydenRead at Grafana Labs