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by coredog64 1493 days ago
Not confined to DataDog, but I always feel like I’m doing something wrong if my o11y costs are more than my infra costs.
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And that resulting in compromises such as high amounts of sampling, ignoring a facet of data altogether because "we won't need it if something goes wrong...", and/or using some kind of log stream processor to divert large amounts of data in S3 instead of allowing it be queried whenever you want.