How Rapid7 Saved $4M with Adaptive Telemetry | ObservabilityCON 2026
Grafana — Nov 2, 2026 — conference
Why watch
Carl Eastman presents Rapid7's journey to save $4 million by eliminating 1.4 billion unnecessary time series using Grafana Cloud Adaptive Telemetry. The talk covers multi-vendor evaluation methodology using OpenTelemetry Collector, implementation of Adaptive Metrics recommendations, drop rules, and adaptive logging and tracing strategies. Ideal for platform engineers, SREs, and DevOps professionals responsible for observability costs and infrastructure.