The Plastic Surgeon proactively shapes data consumption to fit the license through data shaping rules and policies. Their primary motivation is to get the most value from the data budget without going over.Documentation Index
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Pain points
- Different models and tools exist for different telemetry and license types.
- Instrumenting telemetry to take advantage of tooling adds complexity.
- Cost control through centralized rules is a new concept for many organizations.
Common tasks
- Analyzes usage patterns using telemetry usage analysis and the consumption page to identify opportunities to reduce data volume before a violation occurs or in response to budget cuts.
- Creates and manages metric shaping rules to cut or enhance metric and trace data usage.
- Creates budgets with drop thresholds and priority policies to proactively control log volume per partition.
- Shapes data to apply finer-grained control within partitions.
- Works with the Accountant to align data usage with team quotas and partitions.

