Originally posted in Obics.io We set out to build an automated incident response solution. Then we talked to more than 50 companies, and heard the same objection repeating: it won’t work on our data. The telemetry is too noisy, too low quality, too misleading. So we went digging, and found the problem underneath the problem. Logs, metrics, and traces accumulate for years, and almost nothing is ever removed. Telemetry behaves like code.

Originally posted in Obics.io So, you’re trying to understand why your DataDog metrics bill is so high and you can’t figure it out? You’re not alone. DataDog pricing is one of the great mysteries of the universe. But in this post, we’ll go over how it works and try to make it as clear as possible. The first part of the bill for infrastructure hosting is a fixed price per host.