diff --git a/docs/en/observability/apm/sampling.asciidoc b/docs/en/observability/apm/sampling.asciidoc
index 6b9ae285a1..430f416343 100644
--- a/docs/en/observability/apm/sampling.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/en/observability/apm/sampling.asciidoc
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ image::./images/dt-sampling-example-3.png[Distributed tracing and tail based sam
 Tail-based sampling is implemented entirely in APM Server,
 and will work with traces sent by either Elastic APM agents or OpenTelemetry SDKs.
 
+Due to <<open-telemetry-tbs,OpenTelemetry tail-based sampling limitations>> when using https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/processor/tailsamplingprocessor[tailsamplingprocessor], we recommend using APM Server tail-based sampling instead.
+
 [float]
 === Sampled data and visualizations