OpenTelemetry Performance

Designing OpenTelemetry tracing that remains causally useful within an explicit overhead and data-risk budget: auditing automatic/manual coverage, preserving context across asynchronous boundaries, choosing head/tail sampling and collector topology, controlling attributes/baggage, backpressure and export failure, and measuring application plus collector cost. Use when traces fragment, rare tails disappear, Collector memory grows, telemetry drops under incidents, instrumentation duplicates spans, or someone assumes a published agent-overhead figure applies locally. Trace schema design belongs to distributed-tracing-design; statistics to latency-statistics; profiling to con…