Switched from Claw to self-hosted Jaeger - our infra cost rose, but bill is fixed.

Observability Spend & Cost Control

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laura

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Topic starter 17/07/2026 5:35 am [#7870]

We just switched our tracing from a managed SaaS (Claw) to self-hosted Jaeger on our own k8s cluster. Our infra costs went up a bit, which we expected. But our overall bill is now totally predictable!

With Claw, any traffic spike would make the next invoice scary. Now, it's just our fixed cloud VM costs. Has anyone else made this trade-off? Is it common to accept higher baseline infra cost for billing predictability, especially in B2B?

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