Hey everyone! 👋 I've been reading a lot about observability costs, and I keep seeing folks focus on the per-GB price of logs or the per-sample cost of traces. But I'm starting to think the bigger drain is all the hours we spend just trying to *control* those bills.
As a beginner, I'm already overwhelmed. Last week, I spent a whole day just trying to filter out debug logs in my Docker containers to stop sending noise to my logging service. The tool itself isn't that expensive, but my time definitely is!
Can anyone share their beginner-friendly strategies for reducing management overhead? Like, simple log filtering rules or a basic sampling config I could start with? I'm mostly working with Docker and starting to look at CI/CD pipelines.
Thanks in advance for any tips!