What your observability and cloud bill actually costs — with receipts.
Tech With Swetal tears down vendor pricing line by line — Datadog, Grafana, Kubernetes overprovisioning, and the AI agents billing you by the token. No sponsor spin, just the math.
What the channel covers
Four recurring formats, one research pass a week, published as a flagship deep dive plus satellites.
Teardowns
Line-by-line breakdowns of what observability and cloud vendors actually charge you for — and where the bill quietly grows.
Versus
Head-to-head vendor comparisons on the same workload, so you can see real pricing instead of marketing pages.
FinOps deep dives
Kubernetes overprovisioning, cardinality explosions, and the two numbers that quietly set your bill.
This week in pricing
Fast takes on repricing, new tiers, and AI agent billing changes across the observability and FinOps market.
How mature is your FinOps practice?
Take the 10-Point FinOps Scorecard — rate your org against real Level 1 vs. Level 10 benchmarks and get an instant maturity score.
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A short, practical checklist for auditing your own observability or cloud bill — the same framework used in the teardowns.
Want a second opinion on your bill?
I offer a free 1-hour consulting call to a handful of teams a month — screened with a short questionnaire so it’s worth both our time.
See if it’s a fitWho’s behind Tech With Swetal?
I’m Swetal — background in platform engineering and FinOps, now doing the research in public instead of behind a paywall.
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