Free Observability Cost Audit

Your observability bill is too high. Let's fix that. Free 3-hour analysis identifies $50K-$100K in savings.

Your Observability Bill Is Out of Control

Are you spending $500K+ annually on monitoring, logging, and APM? How fast is it growing? 20%, 30%, or maybe 40% every year?

Your dashboards are multiplying. Your engineers are drowning in alerts. Your CFO is asking uncomfortable questions. And your observability vendors aren’t offering discounts any more.

The Vendor Incentive Problem

Your observability vendors have a fundamental conflict of interest:

They make more money when you send them more data.

More logs = bigger bill. More metrics = bigger bill. More traces = bigger bill.

Their professional services teams will happily help you instrument everything and increase retention—all while your costs spiral.

I’m different. As a vendor-neutral observability strategist, my job is the opposite: help you collect smarter data and make better decisions.

Ready to Find Your Savings?

Book a free 3-hour cost audit. Two 30-minute calls, zero obligation. I’ll identify $50K-$100K in specific savings opportunities.

Book Your Free Audit

What If You Could Cut Costs 10-20% While Improving Reliability?

That’s exactly what I help companies do.

I’ve led observability at Fortune 500 scale—8M+ samples per second, 150TiB of logs per day, supporting 300+ engineers. I know where the waste is hiding:

  • High-cardinality metrics burning $30K/month that nobody looks at
  • Retention policies storing months of debug logs nobody searches
  • Duplicate data sent to multiple tools because “we haven’t consolidated yet”
  • Alert noise with 95% false-positive rates
  • Over-provisioned infrastructure to avoid crashes (but poorly tuned)

The Free Observability Cost Audit

I’m offering free 3-hour cost audits to mid-sized SaaS companies.

The Process

1. Discovery Call (30 minutes)

  • Share your observability stack, rough spend, and pain points
  • I explain what I’ll review

2. Analysis (2 hours on my time)

  • Review your setup with read-only access
  • Identify cost optimization opportunities
  • I may have some follow up questions during this stage

3. Results Call (30 minutes)

  • Report with 3-5 specific quick wins
  • Discuss which recommendations fit your team
  • Optional: explore next steps if you want implementation help

Your Commitment

  • 60 minutes of your time (two 30-minute calls)
  • Read-only access to your observability stack
  • Rough annual spend number for ROI calculations

What I Review

  • Cardinality analysis – High-cardinality metrics burning budget
  • Retention policies – Over-retaining low-value data?
  • Duplication – Same data in multiple tools?
  • Alert-to-incident ratio – Signal vs. noise
  • Tool use – Paying for unused features? Comparison with alternatives.

Why This Is Free

  1. Confident I’ll find savings
  2. Building case studies for Cardinality Cloud
  3. Show my expertise before you commit to a larger engagement

You’ll get actionable recommendations whether you hire me or not.

Who This Is For

Ideal if you:

  • Are a mid-sized SaaS company (50-500 employees)
  • Spend $50K-$500K+/year on observability
  • Use Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic, or similar
  • Can make cost optimization decisions (VP Eng, CTO, Director SRE)
  • Face alert fatigue, high costs, or tooling complexity

Who I Am

Jack Neely – Chief Observability Strategist, Cardinality Cloud | Vendor-Neutral Observability

  • 25+ years in systems architecture and SRE
  • Led observability teams at Palo Alto Networks and Fitbit
  • Saved $2.5M annually migrating away from Splunk
  • Implemented Thanos at enterprise scale for Prometheus clustering
  • Open source contributor (Graphite, Prometheus, Thanos, StatsRelay)
  • Compliance expertise: HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP
  • Host: operations.fm podcast

I’m a practitioner who’s built observability systems that don’t break—and don’t break the bank.

What Happens After?

Three outcomes:

  1. You implement yourself (great—free advice worth 5 figures)
  2. Not a priority right now (fine—maybe we work together later)
  3. Want implementation help (we discuss Strategy Sprint or ongoing engagement)

No pressure. No obligation.

Book Your Free Audit

Two 30-minute calls. Zero obligation. $50K-$100K in identified savings.

Let's Talk About Your Observability Strategy

Whether you're ready to schedule a consultation or have questions, we're here to help.

Book Your Free Cost Audit

Two 30-minute calls. Zero obligation. I'll show you specific savings opportunities worth $50K-$100K/year.

Schedule Consultation

No commitment required — just a conversation about your needs

Have a Specific Question?

Send us a message and we'll get back to you within 24 hours.

Or email us directly at jjneely@cardinality.cloud

FAQ

Q: Is this really free? A: Yes. No credit card. No obligation.

Q: What access do you need? A: Read-only access to observability stack. Access to ask technical follow up questions.

Q: How long until results? A: Usually 3-5 business days between calls.

Q: What if my spend is under $50K/year? A: Let’s connect! Setting up a forward looking Observability Strategy builds amazing engineering foundations and will bake in savings to your growth plans.

Q: What if you can’t find $50K in savings? A: I’ll tell you honestly. If you’re already optimized, I’ll say so. I don’t manufacture problems.