About this session
Telemetry spend grows faster than traffic unless someone is paying attention. Elena explains how Tidewater cut its observability bill by 58% with tail-based sampling, cardinality budgets and a policy for deleting dashboards nobody opens. You will see the before and after of real queries and invoices.
What you'll take away
- How tail-based sampling keeps the traces that matter
- A simple cardinality budget your teams will respect
- A quarterly ritual for retiring unused dashboards and alerts