Observability Budgeting Cheat Sheet

SLI burn rate, alert thresholds, and cost caps

Last Updated: November 21, 2025

Focus Areas

Focus
Track burn rate per SLO and alert before budget hits 80%
Throttle or drop low-value telemetry when costs spike

Commands & Queries

datadog budget query
Check usage vs budget
grafana alert set --threshold 80
Alert on burn rate
otel config set max_metrics 1000
Cap telemetry ingestion

Summary

Guard telemetry budgets while keeping critical signals intact.

💡 Pro Tip: Monitor ingestion costs and throttle high-cardinality datasets.
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