04/17/2026
“What are we paying for?”
It usually comes up when your data pipelines are stable,
On paper, everything looks… quiet.
But that’s exactly where the problem starts.
Because data observability doesn’t show its value in alerts or monitors.
It shows up in the incidents that never happened,
And that’s not easy to quantify in a budget conversation.
If this question has come up in your reviews, this is worth a read:
https://tinyurl.com/4v4jk5b9
There’s a smarter way to connect observability to real business impact
cost per incident, MTTD, MTTR, team efficiency, and even AI reliability.