ESCAPING THE COST/VISIBILITY TRADEOFF IN OBSERVABILITY PLATFORMS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

It’s difficult to keep costs low as system complexity grows in traditional Application Performance Monitoring systems. This leads to a cost/visibility tradeoff, where to cut costs, teams have to cut down on visibility into their application’s performance. There are several options to address this, such as focusing on efficient event handling, embedding custom attribute tracking in code, and using open-source observability tools.