SolutionsTelemetry modernization
An estate that scales by decision, not by accident
Telemetry modernization means collecting once at the edge, normalizing in flight, and tiering every event by value, so growth in volume stops translating directly into growth in cost.
01The problem
What this actually fixes
A pipeline sized for 50 GB per day behaves differently at 250 GB per day. Costs climb on a per-GB curve, indexers fall behind, and teams start dropping sources to stay inside budget rather than because the data has no value. Meanwhile cloud, Kubernetes, and AI workloads multiply the sources faster than any team can hand-wire them.
The fix is deciding what each event is worth and routing it to the right tier, so detection and compliance stay intact while low-value noise stops driving the bill.
02The work
What modernization builds
- Collects once at the edge across endpoints, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless, on the open standard every vendor accepts.
- Normalizes fields and schemas in flight, so the same event reads consistently in every destination.
- Tiers by value: signal to the platforms, full-fidelity copies to storage you own for replay and audit.
- Lands everything as code in your repositories, so the next source is a pattern, not a project.
What it leaves you with
The modernized estate is also the AI-ready one: clean, enriched, partitioned history in open formats is exactly what every agent you buy or build next will need to read.
03Read more
The journal pieces behind this
The longer read, with the sources on the page.
Analysis · 2026-03-21
Five signs your observability stack needs a pipeline layer
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Architecture · 2026-04-30
Cribl pipelines as code: the Terraform path to reviewed changes and a recovery you can run
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Economics · 2026-04-15
Datadog bills: why you may be paying twice, and how to stop
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