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Ask HN: Is Observability Broken for You?

I'm curious if anyone feels like observability is in bad shape. When I was an SRE, around 2022 we got asked to dramatically lower our DataDog costs, which mostly meant a lot of sampling and fighting over retention. We also had to turn off some features w...

Source: Hacker News Newest · news.ycombinator.com Published 2026-10-06T12:54:24+00:00 Detected 2026-10-06T13:23:08+00:00
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I'm curious if anyone feels like observability is in bad shape. When I was an SRE, around 2022 we got asked to dramatically lower our DataDog costs, which mostly meant a lot of sampling and fighting over retention. We also had to turn off some features w...

I'm curious if anyone feels like observability is in bad shape. When I was an SRE, around 2022 we got asked to dramatically lower our DataDog costs, which mostly meant a lot of sampling and fighting over retention. We also had to turn off some features we liked like container monitoring. It seems like...

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