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Author: carsonip

solutions/observability/apps/transaction-sampling.md

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 Due to [OpenTelemetry tail-based sampling limitations](../../../solutions/observability/apps/limitations.md#apm-open-telemetry-tbs) when using [tailsamplingprocessor](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/processor/tailsamplingprocessor), we recommend using APM Server tail-based sampling instead.
 
+### Tail-based sampling performance [_tail_based_sampling_performance]
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+Tail-based sampling, by definition, requires storing events locally temporarily, such that they can be retrieved and forwarded once sampling decision is made.
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+It requires disk storage proportional to traffic received by APM, and additional memory to facilitate disk reads and writes.
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 ## Sampled data and visualizations [_sampled_data_and_visualizations]