One time I was a happy customer of Raygun for error monitoring, and I enabled Raygun's new-at-the-time APM product on my API to monitor performance. I can't rem

One time I was a happy customer of Raygun for error monitoring, and I enabled Raygun's new-at-the-time APM product on my API to monitor performance. I can't remember if the high sample-rate was the default or if I was just dumb, but I had a really high sample-rate configured. I was super happy to get so much visibility into my application's performance, especially query performance! However, I wasn't happy when I saw I racked up a $14k bill in just a few days. Thankfully, they forgave the bill (thanks jdt!), but it still scared me. I was still at the point back then where a bill like that could've killed my company, or at the very least got me into a lot of trouble. After that, I pretty much ruled out usage-based billing for my company as too risky. This was quite a few years ago, but to this day I still have no major dependencies that offer usage-based billing.