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Startups Can Get 80% of Observability for Under $200/Month
A developer outlines a self-hosted observability stack using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Jaeger, and Alertmanager that costs under $200/month. The setup takes about 4 hours and covers metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting. The author argues startups should avoid expensive tools like Datadog until they have more engineers.
Meridian48 take
The advice is sound for early-stage startups, but scaling or compliance needs may eventually force a move to managed services.
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