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Configure head-based sampling

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Configure head-based sampling

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There are three ways to adjust the head-based sampling rate of your APM agents:

Dynamic configuration

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The transaction sample rate can be changed dynamically (no redeployment necessary) on a per-service and per-environment basis with APM agent Configuration in Kibana.

Kibana API configuration

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APM agent configuration exposes an API that can be used to programmatically change your agents' sampling rate. An example is provided in the Agent configuration API reference.

APM agent configuration

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Each agent provides a configuration value used to set the transaction sample rate. See the relevant agent’s documentation for more details:

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