# Tail Sampling Processor

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> OpenTelemetry Collector processor · contrib distribution

- **Component ID**: `contrib-tailsamplingprocessor`
- **Name**: `tailsamplingprocessor`
- **Type**: processor
- **Distribution**: contrib
- **Repository**: `opentelemetry-collector-contrib`

## Stability

| Level | Signals |
| --- | --- |
| beta | traces |

## Attributes

| Attribute | Type | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `decision` | string | The sampling decision |
| `policy` | string | Name of the policy |
| `sampled` | bool | Whether the sampling decision was sampled or not, false can mean either not sampled or dropped |

## Data

- **JSON**: [/data/collector/components/contrib-tailsamplingprocessor/contrib-tailsamplingprocessor-d52dfba7623a.json](/data/collector/components/contrib-tailsamplingprocessor/contrib-tailsamplingprocessor-d52dfba7623a.json)
- **Explore**: [/collector/components/contrib/tailsamplingprocessor](/collector/components/contrib/tailsamplingprocessor)