Cutting Metrics Traffic, Cutting Costs: The AZ-Aware Observ... Iris Dyrmishi & Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer

This talk, presented by Iris Dyrmishi and Rodrigo Fior Kuntzer from Miro, focuses on a cost-effective strategy for optimizing observability by reducing network traffic. The speakers discuss the often-overlooked expense of inter-availability zone (AZ) data transfer and introduce an AZ-aware observability blueprint. By utilizing standard relabeling mechanisms in tools like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and VictoriaMetrics, they demonstrate how to configure agents to scrape only targets within their own AZ. This method not only minimizes cross-AZ metrics collection but also leads to substantial savings in cloud traffic costs, offering a practical and vendor-agnostic approach to improving observability while reducing unnecessary cloud spend.