Every service emits telemetry, every telemetry vendor charges by volume and nobody deletes anything. Several companies report monitoring costs exceeding the cost of the infrastructure being monitored. Sampling, tiered retention and open-source pipelines are the response.
Practical cuts
Sample traces, aggregate metrics at the source and send debug logs to cheap storage rather than the indexed tier. Teams that did this report cost reductions of more than half with no loss of ability to diagnose incidents.
Key takeaways
- Telemetry volume outgrew infrastructure spend
- Sampling and tiered retention halve costs
- Open-source collectors reduce lock-in
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