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Expensive Observability: The Cardinality Challenge - OpenObservability Talks S3E02

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The Cost of Telemetry and the Cardinality Challenge

The cost for observability ends up being dominated by the collection and long-term storage of raw data itself that's used for observability. The amount of data that's being generated is not just proportional to the number of business transactions or the amount of revenue that an application is generating. So as you go and both increase your top line in terms of application use and then also increase the number of just engineers typing code, you're going to see an explosion in the size of the data itself.

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