New blog post: How We Avoided $120K/Month in Observability Costs

Our Datadog bill was $40K/mo and headed to $120K as we scaled. We replaced it with self-hosted Grafana LGTM stack for $15-18K/mo.

The real lesson: per-GB SaaS pricing is a trap at scale. We went from 1TB/day to 6TB/day and our self-hosted costs barely moved. Datadog would have gone from $40K to $120K+.

Self-hosting isn't just about sovereignty — sometimes the economics leave you no choice.

Full write-up with architecture and timeline:
https://rajesh.medampudi.com/blog/how-we-saved-120k-per-month

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