Efficient monitoring is a top priority for many businesses. However, monitoring expenses can quickly escalate if not managed effectively. But Kubernetes and application performance monitoring doesn’t have to be that expensive.

In this presentation, we'll explore practical strategies and techniques for reducing monitoring costs. From efficient resource utilization to smart data retention policies, we'll cover a range of tactics aimed at maximizing the value of your monitoring investment.

This session offers practical insights and actionable tips for optimizing monitoring expenses with open source tools. The talk will be mostly concentrated on typical use cases in monitoring and elegant ways to make things more efficient.

Monitoring serves as a shield against the unknown, providing clarity through the complexity of distributed systems and hardware. However, monitoring itself can become a complex system, posing challenges when it fails.

In this talk, Roman Khavronenko explores the evolution of monitoring practices through numerous support cases encountered with VictoriaMetrics. He investigates Monitoring of Monitoring, engineer-friendly Grafana dashboard creation, alert optimization, and troubleshooting guide compilation.

Join Roman as he navigates through these monitoring-related questions, shedding light on effective strategies for enhancing monitoring practices.