As part of our ongoing series on cost management for observability data in Google Cloud, we’re going to share four steps for getting the most out of your logs while on a budget. While we’ll focus on optimizing your costs within Google Cloud, we’ve found that this works with customers with infrastructure and logs on prem and in other clouds as well. By Afrina M, Mary Koes.
The article focuses on:
- Analyze your current spending on logging tools
- Eliminate waste — don’t pay for logs you don’t need
- Optimize costs over the lifecycle of your logs
- Setup alerts to avoid surprise bills
One final way to stretch your observability budget is to use more Cloud Operations. We’re always working to bring our customers the most value possible for their budget such as our latest feature, Log Analytics, which adds querying capabilities but also makes the same data available for analytics, reducing the need for data silos. Good read!
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