Comparing the Cost of Internal Observability Platforms vs. Commercial Solutions
Comparing the Cost of Internal Observability Platforms vs. Commercial Solutions Recently, our internal team was tasked with calculating the cost of the observability platform we’ve built and maintained in-house, tailored for a specific use case within our enterprise. The results were eye-opening, especially when compared to leading commercial solutions like Grafana Labs’ Cloud offering, Splunk, […]
How We Reduced a Client’s Cloud Bill by 98.6% Overnight: A FinOps Case Study
TL;DR — A client was spending $701/month on a full Kubernetes-based Discourse stack — for a forum with discussions disabled. By asking “do we even need a forum engine?”, we migrated the content to a static site on S3 + CloudFront and cut the bill to ~$10/month: a 98.6% reduction overnight. The biggest FinOps wins […]
