A client's Datadog bill quietly grew to $38K/month — nearly double their actual compute spend. The culprit wasn't one big mistake but a dozen small defaults nobody revisited.
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- A consulting engagement where we finally opened the cloud bill and found forgotten dev environments, runaway log storage, and a data pipeline reprocessing everything from scratch every night.
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