[josephcooney]

A tangentially related anecdote - I heard from a guy from MS that if you turn on Azure's AKS monitoring without any filtering of events applied the cost of the monitoring will be significantly more than running AKS itself.

[yodon]

I had Azure AKS monitoring turned on for a minuscule, essentially unused hobby project. After about four months the monitoring costs suddenly exploded from about $4/mo to about $4k/mo.

No idea what happened and MSFT support couldn't tell me what was happening because at more than $100/day burn rate on a hobby project I started deleting everything connected with the effort as fast as possible.

All I know is my AKS wasn't exploding. Services were still responsive and acting normally in their minuscule cluster, this was just a logging cost explosion.

Also billing alerts are your friend.

[malkia]

That might be okay, say you enable all for 10 - 20 seconds, such that all traces are sampled, logs logged, etc, and then it ramps down.

[sandermvanvliet]

Yeah got burned by that once. Fortunately I had billing alerts in place so we found it quick…

[pranay01]

This is the default monitoring which comes with AKS setup right?

[josephcooney]

I'm not sure....I don't think it was turned on by default for AKS. I can do some digging if you want.