Oddly enough, this is why we started OneUptime in the first place. We were burned by the DataDog bill and wanted an open source observability platform ourselves.
I imagine datadog's AWS bill is also out of control, considering all the absurd levels of queries/groupings you can do.
I used to work on a growing AWS product with tons of features that no one used.
Often when we were creating a feature, our managers would have us include tags and support for making parts of the feature optional, but make sure no parts of the feature (or the feature itself) where optional to start with. We would enable the ability to toggle the feature if "A significant enough amount of customers weighted by revenue requested it".
Also got the "Build filtering, but don't expose it unless we have to".
