> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs-xcor.paloaltonetworks.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Controlling Traces

> Est. ~20–40 minutes. Explore more control features, this time for traces! You'll learn to create datasets and assign behaviors to those datasets to sample traces for datasets.

Est. \~20–40 minutes. Explore more control features, this time for traces! You'll learn to create datasets and assign behaviors to those datasets to sample traces for datasets.

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## Related documentation

* [Sample your traces](/control/shaping/sample-traces)


## Related topics

- [Controlling Metrics](/academy/courses/controlling-metrics.md)
- [Controlling Logs](/academy/courses/controlling-logs.md)
- [Use trace behaviors with datasets](/control/shaping/sample-traces/behaviors.md)
- [Academy](/academy.md)
- [Ingest metric and trace data](/ingest/metrics-traces.md)


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