[matrixgard]

$34k in 8 days with zero users is the flavor of bug that makes CFOs distrust engineering. The thing that would have caught this: anomaly detection scoped to the service + the account, not just the total bill. Most teams monitor the aggregate and only spike-alert above some threshold — by then it's 4 days old. Per-service p95-vs-median alerts at hourly granularity would have flagged this inside 6 hours. Cloudflare should absolutely ship platform-side guardrails here, but until they do, self-built alerts at the service level are the only real defense.