Being Wary of How Much You Spend
Before closing this section, a word of caution: spending on monitoring can easily get out of hand. For example, in 2023, The Pragmatic Engineer reported that Coinbase (another company that uses Rails) spent 65 million dollars in one year on Datadog.[111] This, plus the sudden chill of Coinbase’s main business (crypto), triggered the company to spin an effort to migrate to a different observability platform: one made in-house and built with a combination of Grafana, Prometheus, and Clickhouse.
While that sheer amount of money spent is uncommon, it’s not uncommon for businesses to find themselves spending way more than they had imagined on monitoring platforms. Setting the autopilot on in your monitoring features ...
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