Are Your AWS Lambda Functions Leaking Money? The Hidden Cost of CloudWatch REPORT Logs
TL;DR — Every AWS Lambda invocation emits a REPORT line to CloudWatch Logs. These ~200-byte lines look free, but at scale they routinely account for 20–60% of a serverless platform’s CloudWatch Logs bill — sometimes more than the Lambda compute itself. The fix is not “log less” in your code. It is tuning system-level logging, […]
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, […]
