Ask HN: How do you reduce observability data volume without killing useful ones?

[didro]

Different teams and services have very different needs. What’s critical for one team might be noise for another. Being too aggressive and using blunt, one-size-fits-all policies can hurt debugging or alerting.

Has anyone found flexible and efficient approaches that worked? Would love to hear how others balanced cost vs value without over-simplifying. Open to tools, strategies, or lessons learned.

Thanks!