Cloud & DevOps

Observability without buying everything: the 80/20 stack we recommend

OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Loki and a few hundred lines of YAML — the open-source stack that gives you 80% of Datadog at 20% of the cost.

teamindia May 4, 2026 1 min read

The five-tier model

Logs, metrics, traces, profiles, alerts. Every team needs all five — but not all from the same vendor.

What we run

OTel as the agent, Loki + Tempo + Mimir behind Grafana, and a tiny PagerDuty hook. Total run-rate: under $1k a month at our scale.

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