Last Updated: November 21, 2025
Focus Areas
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Track burn rate per SLO and alert before budget hits 80%
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Throttle or drop low-value telemetry when costs spike
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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.