[ptmcc]

I'm very impressed with the quality of some observability tools like Datadog, which do many good things either automatically or very easily. The usability is leaps and bounds ahead of things like New Relic or the manual instrumentation intensive open source tools. But yes, the costs are insane and require some diligence to keep from running too wild, like most SaaS products these days.

But ultimately we pay it because it gives us incredibly valuable insights and has saved us countless hours in incident response, debugging, and performance profiling. It's lowered my stress level significantly.