[xyst]

> somewhat backwards into DD entrenchment, because they've decided that anything not an official DD metric (that is, collected by their agent typically) is custom and then becomes substantially more expensive.

It a vendor pulled shit like this on me. That’s when I would counsel them. Of course most big orgs would rather not do the leg work to actually become portable, migrate off vendor. So of course they will just pay the bill.

Vendors love the custom shit they build because they know once it’s infiltrated the stack then it’s basically like gangrene (have to cut off the appendage to save the host)