OpenTelemetry SaaS Ingestion Costs Are Unsustainable for High-Volume Data
Teams using OpenTelemetry must ship all telemetry to cloud vendors to make it searchable, incurring massive ingestion and storage costs for low-value noise data. There is no practical way to filter or sample data at the source before it leaves the cluster without building custom infrastructure. This forces teams into a choice between paying for useless data or losing observability coverage.
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