Engagement · 01 · Diagnostic

Two weeks. One number. A roadmap that survives Monday.

Our shortest engagement. Designed for leaders who suspect their observability stack is broken but can't yet name the structural reason. Fixed-fee. No commitment beyond two weeks.

Duration
2 weeks
Price
USD 18,000
Format
Remote
Senior allocation
50%
01 When this fits

Hire us if any of this sounds familiar.

  • arrow_forward Datadog/New Relic bill is climbing 30%+ year-on-year and nobody can defend it.
  • arrow_forward Engineers ignore alerts because most are noise.
  • arrow_forward Incidents take longer than they should because nobody trusts the dashboards.
  • arrow_forward You've been told you need OpenTelemetry but don't know what 'good' looks like.
  • arrow_forward Leadership is asking for SLOs and the answer keeps being 'we're working on it'.
Deliverables · all included
  • check Maturity profile · 12-axis score
  • check Cardinality + cost audit
  • check Alert noise + paging review
  • check Trace coverage assessment
  • check SLO readiness check
  • check Top-10 quick wins (effort-tagged)
  • check 90-day roadmap
  • check Recommendation memo
  • check 60-min walkthrough w/ leadership
02 Protocol

Two weeks, four phases.

01
Day 1–3

Discovery

Stakeholder interviews — Eng leadership, SRE leads, finance owner of the observability bill. We learn what's already on fire.

description Stakeholder map
description Top-5 pain log
description Access provisioning
02
Day 4–7

Audit

Read-only access to your telemetry stack. We measure cardinality, alert volume, dashboard usage, trace coverage, and cost-per-signal.

description Cardinality report
description Alert noise heatmap
description Cost breakdown
03
Day 8–10

Profile

Score your maturity on 12 axes against our reference framework. Identify the structural gaps — not the cosmetic ones.

description Maturity profile (v4.2)
description Gap analysis
description Risk register
04
Day 11–14

Roadmap

We deliver a prioritised 90-day roadmap with effort estimates. We walk it with your team. You decide whether Foundational is worth it.

description 90-day roadmap
description Effort estimate
description Recommendation memo
Stack we work with

Vendor-neutral by default.

We don't take referral fees from any vendor. The audit may end with a recommendation to keep what you have, swap it, or unbundle parts of it.

Datadog New Relic Grafana Prometheus OpenTelemetry Honeycomb Tempo Loki Mimir Jaeger Pyroscope Sentry CloudWatch AWS X-Ray Splunk Elastic Coralogix
Engagement.start()

Ready to start the diagnostic?

Two weeks from kickoff to delivered roadmap. We can usually start within 10 business days.