Self-Hosting Prometheus and Grafana for Omnismith (For Now)

<h2> The "Obvious" Math That's Wrong </h2> <p>Engineer A: "Datadog is $15K/month. Prometheus is free. We should self-host."</p> <p>Engineer B: "But we'd need to pay an SRE to run

<blockquote> <p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> Datadog's per-host pricing is deliberately structured to feel cheap at two or three nodes and expensive by the time you actually need it.

<p>A solid observability setup usually comes down to three pieces working together: something that <strong>collects</strong> metrics, something that <strong>exposes</strong>

<blockquote> <p><strong>TL;DR:</strong> The failure mode nobody warns you about with Raspberry Pi clusters: the service dies, you SSH in twenty minutes later, and

<p><strong>Short answer:</strong> Compare each custom metrics dashboard backend against the same bounded workload, then choose the operational boundary that can preserve 30 days

<h1> Grafana Dashboards for Non-Prod Environment Observability: Cost + Performance in One View </h1> <p>Non-production environments are the most expensive things nobody talks