14 Tools, Zero Visibility I joined a startup last year that had 14 different monitoring...
14 Tools, Zero Visibility
I joined a startup last year that had 14 different monitoring and observability tools. Datadog for infrastructure. New Relic for APM. PagerDuty for alerting. Sentry for errors. Grafana for dashboards. CloudWatch for AWS stuff. The list went on.
The monthly bill was $18,000. The team had zero unified visibility.
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