Can you give an example as to how you could self host a grafana stack for $50/month? On AWS that buys you 4 cores, 8GB memory and 0 storage, and it's certainly not easier than clicking one button on the grafana website.
Excluding traffic, it costs ~ $100 USD per month.
We are doing 10 second scrapes and currently have roughly 141k active time series. In Grafana Cloud it would cost...
15000 metrics for free. 126000/1000 * $8 = $882
Now here's the real kicker.. the pricing Grafana puts on their website are assuming 60 second scrape interval (1 data point/minute or DPM). If you are doing 6 DPM, that's $8 * 6 per 1000 time series!
So final bill.. drum rolls
126000/1000 * $8 * 6 = $6048
Yes. That's a 60x.
Now, sure, we don't get the scale, the backups, the SLA.. but we can live without it. And when Prometheus will start acting slowly, we will just bump it to t3.2xl, or spend some time and filter out some of the noisy metrics we might have around.
Btw, if you try to find any information about what is a "time series" or a "metric" on the Grafana's pricing page, good luck.
https://grafana.com/docs/grafana-cloud/metrics-control-usage...
I don't doubt that that's affordable, or cost competitive to AWS, but thats' about as cheap as you can do it, _and_ that's not including traffic. It's pretty much impossible to half that bill.
I implemented most of the above using Terraform on a managed DigitalOcean cluster on a Saturday a few months back; it wasn't super-hard. Alternatively you could rent a few VPSes someplace and use k3s or similar to get an unmanaged cluster.
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Self-hosting on AWS is kind of counterproductive. Look into "cloud" metal servers and the money will go much further.