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Data sampling in Sematext Experience

November 8, 2019

If you have a high-traffic website or web app, we’ve got good news for you! With high-traffic websites or web apps, you often don’t need to track 100% of your website traffic. Taking a reasonable sample of the website traffic is often good enough to gather reasonably precise, valuable, and actionable insights. For those using Sematext Experience for monitoring high-traffic websites or web apps, sampling may provide a good tradeoff between the loss of precision and cost reduction.

Configure Sampling in Sematext Experience

If your Sematext Experience App is on the PRO plan you can now configure the sampling rate from 10 to 100% (default). Here’s how:

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