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Traces appear for some services but distributed traces are broken. Use this diagnostic guide to check sampling, service names, agent health and intake connectivity in Datadog APM for microservices.
Sampling rate controls how many transactions Datadog traces, directly affecting APM costs and your ability to spot rare bugs. This post walks through a practical engineering decision: adjusting the rate at runtime, verifying the change, and avoiding common blind spots.
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