Jad Naous, Founder and CEO of Grepr recently sat down with Dave Bortz, VP of Engineering at FOSSA, to talk about how FOSSA reduced Datadog log costs by more than 90 percent without losing visibility or slowing down their team.

The discussion focused on how Grepr helps developers control observability data costs by acting as a layer between existing agents and observability vendors. Grepr automatically identifies patterns in telemetry, removes noise, and routes only valuable data to tools like Datadog while keeping a complete copy in a data lake for retrieval when needed.

Highlights from the Conversation

Quick setup: FOSSA implemented Grepr in under a week. The new SRE team handled it with minimal configuration and no workflow disruption.

Immediate results: Log ingestion volume to Datadog dropped by more than 90 percent almost instantly, cutting costs and improving efficiency.

No data loss: Because Grepr stores all raw logs, FOSSA can backfill data anytime for debugging or audits.

Developer friendly: The switch required no extra maintenance or manual filtering projects. Engineers kept full visibility and stayed focused on product work instead of infrastructure cleanup.

Future plans

FOSSA is exploring Grepr’s upcoming trace and host monitoring features to keep optimizing cost and performance.

Dave described Grepr as a tool that “just worked.” It solved a nagging cost issue with almost no effort and no trade-offs in visibility or reliability.

Watch the full conversation

Hear the full discussion between Jad and Dave, including details about FOSSA’s implementation, lessons learned, and what’s next.