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And let's be honest. We all know a company or two that would throw _way_ more than 45k/year at a global metrics solution to handle that volume, and still wind u
by andrewstuart2 6y ago
And let's be honest. We all know a company or two that would throw _way_ more than 45k/year at a global metrics solution to handle that volume, and still wind up with a flaming scrap heap. And a promotion or two.
- redis_mlc 6y agouhh, the GP said $45k/month, so that's $540k/year. I've worked at some large companies, and none would accept that as a cost baseline for basic metrics. But if you said, "We'll cap it at $200k for 5,000 servers" then it gets more interesting. The exceptions are if they're in a NewRelic or Splunk-type $$$$ deal: 1) they might save money by migrating or 2) they might use the lower cost to re-negotiate their Cadillac deals. If you've used Cloudwatch at a medium or large-scale metrics and alerting, please post a comment how that worked out. I find their features/graphs too minimal, but I've never been forced to make it work as the sole metrics/monitoring/alerting tool. (New managers always parrot, "Let's just use Cloudwatch!" their first month on the job, but then reality sinks in and any existing monitoring solution is by far the least of their problems. My favorite question to ask is, "So how do we migrate these existing dashboards that everybody uses? Ever done that?" followed by icy silence.)