[APM] Clarify TBS storage limit indexing destination and TTL expiry behavior#5616
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Hey @marclop! Tagging you for review, since you were responding in the SDH issue. It's a minor change to the docs, would be great if you could take a look and double-check it. |
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Summary
Addresses two customer questions about tail-based sampling (TBS) behavior:
discard_on_write_failureisfalse(default), events bypass TBS and are indexed immediately to thetraces-apm-*data streams.Sourced from dev clarification in elastic/sdh-apm#1928.
Closes #631
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Tool(s) and model(s) used: Claude Sonnet 4.6, running inside Claude Code to double-check files to be updated in the repo + write PR description