// SOLUTION: REDUCE COSTS
Reduce observability costs – before you renew
The monitoring bill grows faster than the infrastructure – and the numbers for renewal are missing. We deliver them: a licence audit that shows what you pay and what you really use. Before you sign, not after.
- Licence audit before renewal: every invoice item mapped to real usage
- Ingest, retention, custom metrics: costs down without new blind spots
- Open-source substitution where it pays off
- Success guarantee: every savings item with data source and calculation path – missing the target comes at our expense – noticeably so
First step: a short, free intro call – directly with a senior consultant, no sales chain. No strings attached – you decide afterwards.
At renewal, the vendor knows your usage data better than you do. We turn that around: afterwards you know what you consume, what you need – and what it costs elsewhere.
// HOW YOU RECOGNISE IT
Three signs you're leaving money on the table
Consumption grows unnoticed
Ingest, custom metrics, hosts: consumption grows quietly – until the annual invoice arrives. Nobody can say what additional value came with it.
You are paying twice
Several tools with overlapping capabilities – from the Zabbix that just grew to the Datadog contract – and none of them gets switched off.
Renewal is coming, the numbers are missing
The vendor knows your usage data, you don't. What gets renewed is the status quo plus a surcharge – year after year.
// HOW WE PROCEED
From gut feeling to hard numbers
1 · Consumption inventory
What is licensed, what is used? We measure both against each other – commercial platforms as well as Zabbix, CheckMK or Nagios estates.
2 · Right-sizing
Tiered retention, sampling, metric hygiene: reducing consumption where nobody is looking. The visibility line is fixed up front.
3 · Structural levers
Tool consolidation, open-source substitution, commitment models – calculated over several years, with the calculation basis open for inspection. More on tool consolidation →
4 · Renewal preparation
Your negotiation dossier: usage data, benchmark, alternatives. Those who can switch negotiate differently.
// DELIVERABLE
What lands on your table afterwards
Your deliverables
- Savings potential analysis – documented and verifiable
- Right-sizing plan with defined visibility lines
- A solid argumentation pack for your next renewal
- TCO comparison of the structural alternatives
// FAQ
Frequently asked questions about the cost analysis
You get a measurable goal instead of a promise – here, for instance, an audit result your finance team can verify itself, with data source and calculation path.
We tie our fee to it: if we miss the goal, we bear a significant part of the cost – you read the terms in the contract up front.
No. The lever almost never lies in switching off monitoring, but in removing redundancy: duplicate metrics, logs never queried, oversized retention. What remains indispensable is fixed up front as an acceptance criterion.
Yes. Consumption-based costs are an ongoing lever, not purely a negotiation topic. The effect is greatest three to six months before renewal – that is when right-sizing and the negotiation dossier work together.
On request, yes. We always deliver the fact base and negotiation preparation, and we are happy to accompany the conversation. The decision stays with you – it is your contract.
The inventory takes two to four weeks depending on the landscape. Quick wins such as tiered retention or unused metrics take effect immediately; structural levers are planned towards your renewal date.
Let's run the numbers before you renew
In a free intro call we clarify where your bill comes from and how big the lever is likely to be. Then you decide whether the analysis is worth it for you. With a success guarantee on the agreed goals.
First step: a short, free intro call – directly with a senior consultant, no sales chain. No strings attached – you decide afterwards.