Presentation: How Eve Online Leverages Head Based Sampling to Observe "Fun"

By Nicholas Herring · InfoQ · Tuesday, 13 October 2026 at 11:00 (32m ago) · Original article ↗

Nicholas Herring shares how EVE Online tackles distributed tracing and observability across a 20-year-old MMO architecture. He discusses leveraging head-based, dynamic exponential moving average (EMA), and deterministic sampling techniques to maintain high system fidelity, control telemetry costs, and avoid performance degradation under high-throughput real-time game simulations.

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