Specialist services for observability, search and production data platforms
SAB Consulting helps technology leaders understand where platform cost and operational risk originate, decide what should change and move from diagnosis to implementation.
Observability cost and governance
Observability Cost Optimization
Identify avoidable spend across logs, metrics, traces, infrastructure monitoring and retention without weakening production visibility.
Datadog Cost Optimization
Analyze Datadog usage, telemetry architecture and contract commitments to identify avoidable spend before renewal or growth.
Elastic Cost Optimization
Optimize Elastic Cloud or self-managed Elasticsearch cost, storage, shards, lifecycle policies, performance and subscription decisions.
OpenSearch Cost Optimization
Optimize Amazon OpenSearch Service or self-managed OpenSearch cost, storage, shards, ISM, indexing and operational reliability.
Splunk Cost Optimization
Review Splunk ingestion, retention, data routing, workload use and architecture to identify avoidable cost and migration options.
Kubernetes Observability Cost Optimization
Reduce Kubernetes telemetry cost caused by container churn, labels, logs, Prometheus metrics, agents and duplicated collection.
Observability Governance
Establish ownership, allocation and policy frameworks that prevent observability cost from growing faster than the organization can explain.
Vendor Renewal Review
Evaluate vendor commitments, usage trajectory and architecture alternatives before a major renewal decision.
Architecture and implementation
OpenTelemetry Architecture
Design and implement OpenTelemetry collection, processing and export patterns that align with production requirements.
Telemetry Pipeline Optimization
Improve telemetry routing, filtering, transformation and export to reduce cost and improve signal quality.
Observability Optimization Program
A structured implementation program to execute prioritized observability optimizations across platform, telemetry and governance.
Observability Migration
Plan and execute controlled migration between observability platforms with validated rollback and production safeguards.
Production platform assessments
Production Platform Assessments
Comprehensive assessment of production data platforms covering architecture, reliability, cost and operational model.
Production Health Check
Focused review of production platform health, identifying risks, bottlenecks and improvement priorities.
Elasticsearch Search Performance Audit
Audit search query performance, indexing patterns, shard design and cluster configuration for Elasticsearch environments.
Platform Reliability Audit
Evaluate platform reliability across failure domains, recovery procedures, capacity planning and operational practices.
RAG Reliability Assessment
Assess the reliability, retrieval quality and operational readiness of Retrieval-Augmented Generation systems.
AI Readiness Assessment
Evaluate data platform maturity, infrastructure readiness and operational foundations required for AI workloads.
Start with a focused assessment
Share the platform, cost or reliability problem you are trying to solve. SAB Consulting will help define the right assessment, the evidence required and the practical next step.