Why your observability is costing you too much?
summary
Explains why observability costs explode: teams ingest and index everything into hot storage even though ~99% of data is never searched and 95% of incidents repeat known errors. Recommends practical fixes using OpenTelemetry and log shippers, avoid indexing info logs, convert high-volume logs into metrics, and implement storage tiers (SSD → EBS → S3) treating older records as cold archives to reduce licensing and compute bills.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:56Useless data storage costs
- 3:2299% costs are useless
- 4:47Three cost drivers
- 6:11Data collection solved
- 7:12Optimize storage costs
- 8:39Manage cold data
- 9:01Summary
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