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Cost control for structured logging

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Audience member asks a compound question about observability bills and approaches for logging business-logic operations (e.g. database changes). Callaghan answers cost first: no silver bullet; OTel reduces lock-in but dashboards/alerts/UI keep switching costs high; audit and reduce what you log (his 41% bill cut, the 'okay' string logged 231M times/month); use semantic_logger's proc filter or collector exclusions; only add what you need to answer a current question; connect engineers to costs. Then domain logic: log/trace domain objects via a to_formatted_h hash.

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OTel eases vendor switching but dashboards/alerts are sticky. Audit and slash noisy logs (cut 41% at BiggerPockets; 'okay' logged 231M/month). Add only what answers a real question. Give engineers cost visibility. For domain logic, log to_formatted_h hashes of domain objects.
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Second half of the question addresses how to log business/domain logic.
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First Q&A question covering both bills and business-logic logging.

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