Whitepapers Observability Cloud Costs

The CTO’s Guide to Predictable Observability Costs

In recent years, a class of tooling built atop the three pillars of metrics, logs, and traces—or traditional observability tools—has seen costs skyrocket at rates many multiples higher than your traffic increases. These scaling costs are radically disconnected from the value traditional tools can deliver. Most often, as costs go up, the value your business derives from these tools declines.

This guide unpacks why your observability bills skyrocket out of control (spoiler: this typically happens with metrics-based tooling). It examines how teams work to mitigate rising costs and shows why those measures lead to declining business value. Additionally, you'll learn more about:

• The traditional approach to observability
• Why your observability bill spirals out of control
• How experienced teams practice cost control
• Shifting to a modern data model for observability
• Managing and predicting modern observability costs at scale
• How Duolingo and OneFootball achieved predictable costs for their observability tooling
• and more!

Download the free whitepaper to learn more.