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OpenTelemetry Is Great, but Who the Hell Is Going to Pay for It?

I’ve specialized in monitoring and observability for 27 years now, and I’ve seen a lot of tools and techniques come and go (RMon, anyone?); and more than a few come and stay...

Some companies push you to pick a tier of service, and if you don’t they’ll charge you an estimated rate based on the 99th percentile of usage for the month ( looking at you, Datadog). But let’s be honest, if you’re a security engineer, how can you justify paying twice cost to ingest logs or metrics, versus the perfectly good standards that already exist and have served well for years? But for now, we have to contend with both the prevailing pricing system as it exists today; and with our own compulsion – born at a different point in the history of monitoring – to collect, transmit, and store every bit (and byte) of telemetry that passes beneath our nose.

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