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The way billing is done in observability offerings everywhere is so frustrating. CloudWatch metrics is such a footgun that I'm terrified when any engineer on ou

• phillipcarter 3y ago
  Hmmm, I wouldn't say this is everywhere. There are tools that aren't metrics-based don't charge based on attributes and/or their cardinality. I'm avoiding shilling the place I work for since some of the messaging around "observability 1.0 vs. 2.0" comes from us, but that's kind of the gist of it. If an attribute is important for debugging something later you shouldn't have to pay 100x the cost to be able to use it. Unfortunately, when you're using a "1.0" type tool such as CloudWatch or DD Metrics you end up needing to guess the economic cost of data you include and measure it against perceived economic value later down the line, which is a terrible experience. (Switching observability tools is no joke though, so I won't say "just switch tools!" -- if the current pains are high it may be worth it, but there's no simple way to switch that I've seen)