Everyone talks about Sysdig's great container visibility. No one talks about the bill you get when you actually use it at scale.
Their per-container, per-hour pricing is a trap for modern architectures. If you're running ephemeral pods, auto-scaling services, or even just a decent CI/CD pipeline that spins up test containers, you're paying for every single short-lived instance. It adds up fast.
* A burst scaling event isn't just an AWS cost. It's a Sysdig invoice spike.
* Data ingestion fees on top of that? For your own monitoring data? Really?
* Try migrating out. Their data egress and API limits make it painful.
You're incentivized to *reduce* instrumentation to save money, which defeats the entire purpose. The pricing is built for monolithic VMs, not microservices.
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