Cost Per Customer for SaaS: The Unit Economics Dashboard That Killed Three Prici

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<p>Claude Code emits OpenTelemetry metrics over OTLP. Anthropic publishes the metric names. So all that was missing, if you run a Prometheus-compatible backend, was a dashboard.