The Economics of Self-Hosting vs. Managed Monitoring
The "Obvious" Math That's Wrong Engineer A: "Datadog is $15K/month. Prometheus is free. We should self-host." Engineer B: "But we'd need to pay an SRE to run it. That's $150K/year." Engineer A: "Prometheus doesn't need a full SRE. It's easy." Engineer B: "Famous last words." This conversation happ
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