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Observability notes
Field notes for engineering teams running production systems at real scale — tooling costs, instrumentation strategy, and the decisions that actually move MTTR.
Tooling & cost
A vendor-neutral look at how Datadog and Grafana pricing models behave at scale — host-based vs usage-based billing, self-hosted Prometheus and Grafana vs Grafana Cloud, and when each choice makes sense.8 min readRead articleInstrumentation
A practical, phased checklist for moving to OpenTelemetry: instrumentation strategy, collector topology, trace/metric/log correlation, and rolling out incrementally without breaking existing dashboards.9 min readRead article
Observability Maturity Checklist
A short self-assessment across detection, coverage, on-call, dashboards, and tooling cost — with a plain read on where it leaves you. Free, no call required.
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