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11 May
TRACING

From beta to GA: what six months of customers taught us about tail-based sampling

The version of tail-based sampling we shipped to GA looks meaningfully different from what we designed on a whiteboard. Here's...

Arjun Mehta May 11 2026 3 min
04 May
COST

Why sampling shipped before compaction: a roadmap-sequencing story

Storage compaction would have saved customers more money on paper. We shipped tail-based sampling first anyway, and the ordering...

Tomás Rivera May 4 2026 3 min
23 Apr
DASHBOARDS

Announcing hx: a terminal dashboard for on-call

Not every incident starts at a laptop with a browser open. hx brings golden signals, alerts, and HelixQL queries into a terminal.

Tomás Rivera Apr 23 2026 2 min
16 Apr
METRICS

Cardinality budgets: turning a limit into a feature

Every metrics store enforces a cardinality limit eventually, usually by falling over. We decided to expose ours on purpose,...

Lena Park Apr 16 2026 2 min
09 Apr
OPENTELEMETRY

OpenTelemetry parity: the native agent is now optional

For two years the Helix native agent had features OpenTelemetry couldn't match. That gap is closed, and it changes what we...

Arjun Mehta Apr 9 2026 3 min
02 Apr
DASHBOARDS

We killed the dashboard nobody looked at, and built this instead

Usage data on our own dashboards said most panels were viewed once and never again. So we built a feature to tell you that about...

Tomás Rivera Apr 2 2026 3 min
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