Name: FinOps for Observability: Reining in Hidden Monitoring Costs Across Distributed Teams - Amir Jakoby, Sawmills
Start: 2025-05-01T11:45:00+0200
End: 2025-05-01T12:25:00+0200

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30 April - 1 May 2025
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Thursday May 1, 2025 11:45 - 12:25 CEST

Zurich I

FinOps has revolutionized cloud cost management, with many vendors emerging over the years to offer tools to curb skyrocketing cloud expenses. However, in distributed organizations, where teams independently adopt observability & cloud-native tooling, cost control becomes even more challenging without centralized strategies.

This talk explores how policies can enable distributed teams to balance innovation with financial accountability. We'll examine the unique challenges of managing o11y costs in these environments, where usage often grows unpredictably due to independent decisions across teams. Starting with an overview of how observability tool pricing structures create cost variability, we'll discuss key policy-driven strategies for defining data retention limits, curbing over-collection, and aligning team usage with organizational budgets.

We'll dive into real-world examples of resource-intensive services that can quickly inflate observability costs, offer benchmarks to guide cost-effective observability practices and how to codify these into cross-organizational policies, and reveal whether your teams might be unintentionally "spamming" o11y systems with unnecessary data.

Speakers

Amir Jakoby

CTO & Co-Founder, Sawmills

Amir Jakoby is a seasoned technology executive with over 18 years of experience in software engineering, leadership, & product innovation. He currently serves as Co-Founder and CTO of Sawmills.ai.Previously, as VP of Engineering at New Relic, Amir led a global team of 85 engineers... Read More →

Thursday May 1, 2025 11:45 - 12:25 CEST
Zurich I

Analytics + Security + Observability

OpenSearchCon Europe 2025

Amir Jakoby

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