Cut Observability Costs Without Losing Detail
Per-host and per-custom-metric pricing grows with every new service and label. Teams respond by sampling traces and dropping labels like tenant ID, which are exactly what they need during an incident.
Target: 60%+ lower observability spend than per-host SaaS pricing, validated during a pilot.
How it works
- Instrument once with OpenTelemetry, so you are not locked into a vendor agent.
- Buffer OTLP data in Kafka and store it in ClickHouse, where cardinality costs storage you size yourself.
- Set retention per data type with TTLs: for example, raw spans for 14 days and aggregated metrics for 13 months.
- Keep Grafana dashboards working through the Prometheus and ClickHouse integrations.