Your Observability Bill Is Too High. Let's Fix That.
You have the tools. You're missing the strategy. I help mid-sized SaaS companies cut observability costs 10-20% while improving reliability—without vendor lock-in.
Book Your Free Cost AuditTwo 30-minute calls. Zero obligation. Typical savings: $50K-$100K/year.
The Observability Paradox
Most engineering teams treat observability as overhead—insurance against outages.
But there's a fundamental conflict you need to understand:
Vendors Are Incentivized Wrong
Your observability vendors make more money when you send them more data. More logs, more metrics, more traces = bigger bills for you, bigger revenue for them.
Result: You're drowning in telemetry, buried in dashboards, and your team is fighting alert fatigue while costs spiral.
I'm Incentivized to Minimize Costs
As a vendor-neutral observability strategist, my job is the opposite: help you collect smarter data, reduce waste, and make better decisions with what you have.
Result: 10-20% cost savings, faster incident response, and a team that understands what actually matters.
How I Help
Start with a free audit. Partner long-term if it makes sense.
Cost Audit
Free 3-hour analysis of your observability stack
The process:
- 30-min discovery call
- Deep-dive analysis (may have follow-up questions)
- 30-min results call: 1-page report with 3-5 quick wins
Your commitment:
- 60 minutes (2 calls)
- Read-only access to observability tools
- Rough annual spend number
Typical savings: $50K-$100K/year
Observability Strategy
Observability Leadership - ongoing strategic guidance
Key deliverables:
- Cost reduction roadmap (10-20% savings)
- Architecture reviews & tool optimization
- SLO/alerting design
- Team training & enablement
Engagement: 3-6 months, 20h/month
Expert leadership at 1/5 the cost of full-time hire
Strategy Sprint
4-6 week hands-on engagement to deliver a specific observability initiative
We deliver:
- Project scoping & execution plan
- Hands-on implementation
- Documentation & training
- Measurable outcome
Common projects: Cost optimization, tool consolidation, SLO frameworks, on-call optimization
Hands-on execution with knowledge transfer
Battle-Tested at Fortune 500 Scale
25+ years building observability systems that don't break—and don't break the bank.
Led Observability at Fortune 500 Companies:
- Supported 300+ engineers
- 8M+ samples/second, 150TiB logs/day at scale
- Implemented Thanos and Mimir for Prometheus clustering
- Successfully migrated away from Splunk, saving $2.5 million annually
Built systems that actually work:
- Architected Thanos/Grafana cluster: 400M+ unique time series
- Open source contributor: Graphite, Prometheus, Thanos
- Built StatsRelay (multi-million UDP packets/second capacity for StatsD)
- HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP compliance experience
Recognition:
- Gertrude Cox Award recipient for innovative teaching with technology
- Host of operations.fm podcast
- Conference speaker and industry thought leader
"Jack has been instrumental in helping bring our vision for KindHabitLabs to life. His expert skills have guided us through complex business challenges and transformed our ideas into real, functioning solutions."
— Trevor Shick, CEO, KindHabitLabs Inc
Technology-agnostic expertise:
Prometheus • Grafana • Thanos • Mimir • Datadog • New Relic • Splunk • OpenTelemetry • Graphite • StatsD • InfluxDB
Ready to See Where Your Observability Budget Is Going?
Book your free cost audit today. Two 30-minute calls, zero obligation.
I'll show you specific savings opportunities worth $50K-$100K/year.