Observability Cost Optimizer

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Reduce monitoring costs (Datadog, New Relic) by 30-70% with optimization strategies, configuration changes, and migration paths to cheaper alternatives.

What You Get

Eliminates 2-8 hours of research and delivers immediate cost reduction strategies with copy-paste configurations, realistic savings estimates, and complete migration paths.

The Problem

Bootstrapped SaaS founders discover their monitoring tools (Datadog, New Relic) cost 20-50% of infrastructure budget, with complex pricing and default generous configurations that spiral out of control. Migration feels risky without expert guidance.

The Solution

This skill analyzes your observability stack and provides platform-specific optimization strategies, copy-paste configuration changes for log filtering and metric reduction, migration paths to cheaper alternatives (Grafana Cloud, self-hosted), 12-month cost projections, and rollback procedures. Delivers 30-70% cost reduction without losing critical visibility.

How It Works

  1. 1 Gather context about current platform, costs, scale, and critical monitoring needs
  2. 2 Research current pricing for platform and alternatives using WebSearch
  3. 3 Audit cost components (logs, metrics, APM, retention) and identify waste areas
  4. 4 Generate optimization strategies with copy-paste configurations and realistic savings estimates
  5. 5 Calculate cost projections with transparent math showing before/after breakdown
  6. 6 Evaluate migration options with comparison tables and implementation plans
  7. 7 Document trade-offs and create implementation checklist with rollback procedures

What You'll Need

  • Current monitoring platform (Datadog, New Relic, Grafana Cloud, etc.) and monthly cost
  • Team size and infrastructure scale (hosts, services, log volume)
  • Access to platform usage dashboard for optimization
  • Ability to modify platform configuration or deploy code changes

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