But our customers shouldn’t have to be experts in cardinality reduction —

I bet most of you have no idea what I’m talking about in the first place. It’s my responsibility to design a product that makes it easy to control costs. And to make it cheap for basic use cases by default.

Bruno, I’m sorry for the emotional roller-coaster of getting a surprise $35,000/month bill. That’s just not right and it was never my intention.

Going forward, we’ll be adjusting the price for 1 billion of retained metrics data points from $1,000 to $5. That’s 200x cheaper.

There’s no good reason to self-host Prometheus anymore.

And yes, that’s a lot cheaper than Datadog.

The industry needs more visibility into usage & pricing

We still have a long way to go, but here are things we’re doing to make sure our customers don’t get surprise bills.

Granular day-by-day usage reporting in a single place

No need to guess how many metrics you’re generating anymore. Simply send us 1 day of data and we’ll extrapolate the estimated usage for you. All your usage in a single screen. Available in Settings → Usage.

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