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.chloggen/SampledLoggerTelemetry.yaml

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ change_type: enhancement
 component: service/telemetry exporter/exporterhelper
 
 # A brief description of the change.  Surround your text with quotes ("") if it needs to start with a backtick (`).
-note: "Update default sampling logger configuration in the telemetry configuration."
+note: "Enable sampling logging by default and apply it to all components."
 
 # One or more tracking issues or pull requests related to the change
 issues: [8134]

otelcol/unmarshaler.go

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ func unmarshal(v *confmap.Conf, factories Factories) (*configSettings, error) {
 					Encoding:    "console",
 					Sampling: &telemetry.LogsSamplingConfig{
 						Enabled:    true,
-						Tick:       1 * time.Second,
+						Tick:       10 * time.Second,
 						Initial:    10,
 						Thereafter: 100,
 					},

otelcol/unmarshaler_test.go

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func TestUnmarshalEmptyAllSections(t *testing.T) {
 		Encoding:    "console",
 		Sampling: &telemetry.LogsSamplingConfig{
 			Enabled:    true,
-			Tick:       1 * time.Second,
+			Tick:       10 * time.Second,
 			Initial:    10,
 			Thereafter: 100,
 		},

service/telemetry/config.go

@@ -99,10 +99,15 @@ type LogsConfig struct {
 // global CPU and I/O load that logging puts on your process while attempting
 // to preserve a representative subset of your logs.
 type LogsSamplingConfig struct {
-	Enabled    bool          `mapstructure:"enabled"`
-	Tick       time.Duration `mapstructure:"tick"`
-	Initial    int           `mapstructure:"initial"`
-	Thereafter int           `mapstructure:"thereafter"`
+	// Enabled enable sampling logging
+	Enabled bool `mapstructure:"enabled"`
+	// Tick represents the interval in seconds that the logger apply each sampling.
+	Tick time.Duration `mapstructure:"tick"`
+	// Initial represents the first M messages logged each Tick.
+	Initial int `mapstructure:"initial"`
+	// Thereafter represents the N messages logged after Initial and the rest are dropped, during each Tick.
+	// If Thereafter is zero, the Core will drop all log entries after the first M messages each Tick.
+	Thereafter int `mapstructure:"thereafter"`
 }
 
 // MetricsConfig exposes the common Telemetry configuration for one component.

service/telemetry/telemetry.go

@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ func newLogger(cfg LogsConfig, options []zap.Option) (*zap.Logger, error) {
 }
 
 func newSampledLogger(logger *zap.Logger, sc *LogsSamplingConfig) *zap.Logger {
-	// Create a logger that samples all messages to sc.Tick per second initially,
-	// and sc.Initial/sc.Thereafter of messages after that.
+	// Create a logger that samples every Nth message after the first M messages every S seconds
+	// where N = sc.Thereafter, M = sc.Initial, S = sc.Tick.
 	opts := zap.WrapCore(func(core zapcore.Core) zapcore.Core {
 		return zapcore.NewSamplerWithOptions(
 			core,