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The Accountant proactively sets and monitors the observability data budget, both for overall license limits and for team quotas. Their primary motivation is to determine whether the organization is paying for too much or too little data.

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Pain points

  • Different models and tools for different telemetry and license types.
  • Tooling gaps for some license types.
  • Consistent labeling is required to take full advantage of quota tooling.
  • Central management of team quotas is a new concept for many organizations.

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Common tasks

  • Structures log data ownership by creating partitions for teams, services, and environments to attribute usage and costs to the correct owners.
  • Identifies quotas based on the company’s structure and manages metric quota configuration.
  • Analyzes consumption across partitions to detect growth trends and unwanted spikes against license capacity.
  • Creates budgets with thresholds and drop policies to guard against runaway usage and overspending per partition.
  • Understands observability data license limits (storage versus processing versus cardinality) and the tradeoffs in different configurations.
  • Reviews licensing details to understand what penalties might be applied.

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Connected personas

The Accountant and the Plastic Surgeon are closely paired. The Accountant sets the budget and assigns quotas; the Plastic Surgeon executes the data shaping work to stay within them.