Chartio certainly isn't the only company guilty of this. Take Splunk, a $4 billion dollar (in market cap) machine log analytics service. They rolled out a new

Chartio certainly isn't the only company guilty of this. Take Splunk, a $4 billion dollar (in market cap) machine log analytics service. They rolled out a new service called DB connect which allows you to integrate database analytics with their platform. Their implementation of DB connect is equally intrusive. However, I can still see these services being useful for visualizing operations that are less critical.