A company reduced its Datadog expenses from $38,000 to $15,000 per month by eliminating unused custom metrics, optimizing log tiers, using lower-cardinality tags, discontinuing unnecessary synthetic monitors in development environments, and adjusting APM sampling rates. This approach highlights the importance of data hygiene over negotiating pricing for maintaining effective observability without financial strain.
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