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show the difference of storing a sampling decision on the client for subsequent trace propagations vs. not doing that
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// Assumption for this script: | |
// All backend requests happen without an active client-side span. Meaning, depending on the values stored | |
// PropagationContext, server side transactions are either sampled with a server-side sample rate or | |
// force-sampled by continuing the trace from the client. | |
const serverSampleRate = 0.05; | |
const clientSampleRate = 0.2; | |
const serverTxnsPerPage = 10; | |
const repetitions = 10_000; | |
let longTraceSampledTxns = 0; | |
let shortTracesSampledTxns = 0; | |
for (let i = 0; i < repetitions; i++) { | |
const clientSideSampled = sampleFrontendSpan(); | |
if (clientSideSampled) { | |
longTraceSampledTxns++; | |
for (let j = 0; j < serverTxnsPerPage; j++) { | |
const backendSampled = sampleBackendSpan(true); | |
if (backendSampled) { | |
longTraceSampledTxns++; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
for (let i = 0; i < repetitions; i++) { | |
const clientSideSampled = sampleFrontendSpan(); | |
if (clientSideSampled) { | |
shortTracesSampledTxns++; | |
} | |
for (let j = 0; j < serverTxnsPerPage; j++) { | |
const backendSampled = sampleBackendSpan(false); | |
if (backendSampled) { | |
shortTracesSampledTxns++; | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
function sampleFrontendSpan() { | |
return Math.random() < clientSampleRate; | |
} | |
function sampleBackendSpan(force) { | |
return force || Math.random() < serverSampleRate; | |
} | |
console.log('Long traces - txns sampled:', longTraceSampledTxns); | |
console.log('Short traces - txns sampled:', shortTracesSampledTxns); |
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