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 we liked like container monitoring.It seems like observability is priced like interest rates are still 0%. This matters because, for example, if you are the leader of a platform team trying to get web devs to add observability, it's a tough sell because it's expensive.Are things just fine on your team wrt observability? Or are you doing a lot of sampling/poor retention to save costs?

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