Why Does It Cost That Much? Cause it Takes Me F***ing Hours

Today’s blog title is inspired by this song. My daughter started singing it regularly after she opened her bakery. Read on for details on that story, and how it relates to observability.

I thought of it, and my daughter’s reasons for singing it, after a few responses to last week’s blog post. It touched a nerve, which was nice to see. This is an important, nuanced, and complex conversation. I believe that getting folks involved in this conversation is better for everyone.

Some of the thoughtful responses included this one:

And this one

But apparently, for some folks, it touched the WRONG nerve. People misunderstood the point I was trying to make. Some people (and I’m not linking those posts) took it as a reason to bash vendors for charging anything at all. To posit that all software (and especially all monitoring software) should be free.

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