Sentry Spans and Performance Quota Running Out
Quick answer
Tracing burns spans quickly at a high sample rate. Lower tracesSampleRate or use a sampler and watch the Stats page.
Most likely fix: Sample less
How to fix it
Try these in order — the most common fix is first.
1. Sample less
- Set tracesSampleRate to a low value
- Use tracesSampler to drop health checks and noisy routes
Did this fix it?2. Monitor
- Settings > Stats > filter by Spans
- Add a spend notification threshold on Team or Business
Did this fix it?
Symptoms
Span quota is used up early in the month.
Why it happens
- tracesSampleRate set to 1.0 in production
- Chatty background jobs and health checks create many spans
This guide also covers
- sentry spans quota
- sentry performance monitoring expensive
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