Engineering Guides

Your Datadog bill keeps climbing because teams store more data to solve a retrieval problem, and that has never actually worked.

Application logs capture developer-written context about business logic and internal state; APM traces automatically record request flow and performance across services, and understanding the difference explains why both inflate your observability bill.

A breakdown of why app logging bills grow faster than your user base, and how to cut volume without losing observability coverage.

Modern microservices applications generate petabytes of observability data monthly, and most of it is noise Datadog still charges you to store.

Grepr reduces New Relic costs by applying ML-based log reduction upstream of ingest, summarizing high-volume patterns while preserving unique events, anomalies, and any logs referenced by your existing dashboards and alerts.

Grepr lets you keep your raw log data in your own S3 bucket while still getting the benefits of a managed observability platform.

The logging paradox forces organizations to index everything at massive cost because they cannot predict which fraction of data a future incident will require.

Most observability overspending comes from paying premium prices to store logs nobody queries.

Observability spending hit $28.5 billion in 2025, and 96% of organizations are now actively working to bring costs under control.

First mile log processing with Grepr filters and routes logs before they reach expensive observability platforms, reducing costs by 90% while preserving 100% visibility by sending high-signal data to premium platforms and routing routine logs to low-cost storage.

Grepr's SQL transform enables real-time redaction of sensitive data like passwords from log events before they reach your data lake or monitoring platform, using familiar SQL syntax within your log processing pipeline.

Modern observability generates too much telemetry data and too little insight, and Grepr solves this by providing an intelligent observability platform that automates data processing, routing, and storage to cut costs by over 90% while preserving full visibility.