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Cutting Telemetry Volume Is Not the Same as Cutting Noise

Almost every conversation about observability budgets I have been in ultimately arrives at the same conclusion: "we need to reduce our telemetry volume." That sentence is usually followed by a number.

Cutting Telemetry Volume Is Not the Same as Cutting Noise

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Almost every conversation about observability budgets I have been in ultimately arrives at the same conclusion: "we need to reduce our telemetry volume." That sentence is usually followed by a number.

Then someone says the thing that makes everyone in the room relax.

We can cut the volume and improve the signal at the same time."

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Almost every conversation about observability budgets I have been in ultimately arrives at the same conclusion: "we need to reduce our telemetry volume." That sentence is usually followed by a number. Whatever the finance spreadsheet needs it to be. Then someone says the thing that makes everyone in the room relax.

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  • We can cut the volume and improve the signal at the same time."

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Whatever the finance spreadsheet needs it to be. Then someone says the thing that makes everyone in the room relax.

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