Your Observability Bill Is Too High.
Let's Fix That.
Observability isn't a tax. It's leverage. Cut costs up to 10x. Improve reliability. Vendor independent.
Free consultation to 10x your Observability
Calculate Your Potential Savings
See how much you could save with an Independent Observability Architect.
How I Help
I'm an Independent Observability Architect. Not a vendor. I optimize your stack, cut costs, improve reliability, train your team, and hand you the keys. Start with a cardinality audit. Scale to architecture work or ongoing stewardship as needed.
Cardinality Audit
Get an Observability Roadmap that gives you confidence to make decisions
Your roadmap includes:
- Current state mapping: where your money goes
- Signal and alert gaps you're missing
- Cost-to-insight misalignment
- High-leverage optimization options (3-5 specific opportunities)
- Clear decision thresholds and tradeoffs
Start with a free discovery call. No pitch, no pressure.
You keep this roadmap whether or not we continue working together.
Independent Observability Architect
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:
- Successfully migrated away from Splunk, saving $2.5 million annually
- Supported 300+ engineers
- 8M+ samples/second, 150TiB logs/day at scale
- Implemented Thanos and Mimir for Prometheus clustering
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 Cardinality Cloud YouTube channel
- 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?
Start with a free discovery call to discuss your observability challenges.
No pitch, no pressure. Just a conversation to see if an audit makes sense for you.
Prefer a different way to connect?
Email: jjneely@cardinality.cloud
YouTube: @cardinalitycloud
Podcast: operations.fm