(Disclaimer: I work at Chronosphere, a Datadog competitor) This is a big issue in the observability space. We have written a few blog posts on this, but basically it’s easy to fall into a trap where cardinality and high dimensional monitoring causes your metrics to pop, causing costs to skyrocket. You have a few experiments, are running a bunch of smaller k8s pods per cluster and whoosh! you might be looking at millions, rather than thousands of time series that you're sending to your provider. Most vendors won’t provide tooling or suggest ways to reduce these costs, b/c they have no economic incentive to do so…. Anyway, bottom line is that no one should have to pay more to observe a service than to operate it.

Also: it’s 2023. Every company needs to be getting compatible with open standards like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, etc.