[Spooky23]

When I worked in a storage group years ago, the system that controls swipe card access for a building generated something like 3TB of Java exceptions a month.

Because of the criticality, it was on high tier reliable SAN storage, replicated to a second site. IIRC, storage was like $80 Gb/mo.

[phanimahesh]

Love how you said exceptions, rather than just logs. I am unfortunately (painfully) aware of exactly what you mean. The storage costs were the cherry on the top. But seriously, $240k and nobody raised a stink?

[Spooky23]

It’s one of those things that cloud storage helps with.

Because it was on prem, the chargeback model was associated with the business unit and not super granular. It got lumped in with another business function because it should be a trivial workload.

I found it when I was doing estimates for a new platform and the app’s growth numbers didn’t add up! Even at $240k, it wasn’t an obvious outlier.