Amazon Managed Prometheus Bill Out of Control?

Cardinality Limits, Slow Queries, and a Pricing Model That Punishes Scale

Expensive

"Our AMP bill doubled after a new service launch. The pricing per-sample is steep."

— DevOps Lead

"We spend more time trying to optimize our AWS bill for Prometheus than we do analyzing the metrics."

— FinOps Director

"We have a 'banned labels' list just to keep the AMP bill from going to the moon."

— Principal Engineer

Slow

"High cardinality queries are a non-starter. Our key dashboards are dog slow."

— SRE Manager

">7 days queries are a hit or miss. We are sick of timeouts."

— Head of Platform

"Trying to explore metrics during a high-traffic incident is a recipe for timed-out dashboards."

— Senior SRE

Operational Overhead

"It's 'managed infrastructure', not a 'managed outcome'. We still manage our Grafana."

— Senior Cloud Engineer

"Troubleshooting AMP's performance required us to become experts in its obscure internal metrics."

— Cloud Architect

"We pre-aggregate metrics before they even hit AMP, just to avoid hitting limits."

— DevOps Engineer

You chose a managed service to reduce complexity, not trade it for a new set of problems. Oodle delivers on the full promise.

The All-in-One Metrics Platform You Wanted

Blazing fast, unlimited cardinality, AI-powered at 50% cost

Oodle is a fully managed serverless, drop-in replacement for Prometheus and Grafana, built for scale. Oodle comes with the Grafana UI you love, but a supercharged backend that handles any cardinality, eliminates query timeouts, and cuts your bill by up to 3x.

Any Cardinality

Send any tag: customer-id, request-id, pod-id
Never drop labels
Unlock granular, high-dimensional analysis

Fast

Blazing-fast queries
Serverless design eliminates bottlenecks
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Reliable

Fully Managed
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Serverless design eliminates the single points of failure

Cost-effective

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Simple pricing. No per-user fees.
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Oodle AI vs. Amazon Managed Prometheus: Feature Deep Dive

Feature Dimension	Oodle AI	Amazon Managed Prometheus	Oodle Advantage
Grafana UI	✅ Included & Fully Managed	❌ Requires Separate Self-Hosting	Oodle is a complete solution. With AMP, you have yet another component to manage, secure, and scale.
Operational Overhead	✅ Zero Operational Overhead	❌ High	Reclaim 1-2 full-time engineers. Oodle handles all scaling, tuning, and upgrades. You manage nothing.
Scalability	✅ Effortless & Automatic	❌ Requires Manual Scaling	Oodle's serverless design scales infinitely out of the box. AMP requires manual intervention and planning.
High Availability	✅ Built-in & Automatic	❌ A Major DIY Project	Oodle is built on serverless & S3. Achieving this yourself requires complex configuration and constant management.
Total Cost (TCO)	50% Cheaper Than AMP	High & Unpredictable	Oodle's price is often 50% lower than AMP, with predictable pricing and no hidden costs.
Cardinality Handling	✅ Natively Supported. No Limits	❌ A Constant Risk	Oodle's architecture is built for high cardinality. In AMP, a single bad metric can take down your entire monitoring system.
Query Performance	✅ Consistently Fast (<3s p99)	🟠 Depends on Tuning & Scale	Get expert-level performance out of the box without becoming a full-time database admin for your monitoring stack.
Security & Upgrades	✅ Automatic & Seamless	❌ Manual & High-Risk	Oodle handles all security patching and version upgrades with zero downtime. For AMP, this is a constant, manual chore.

Simple, Predictable Pricing

Oodle's transparent model typically saves teams 50% compared to Amazon Managed Prometheus.

Monthly Costs in Observability

2,000,000

active time series / hour

per 1k metrics / month^*

$4,000

per month

*Assumptions: 1 data sample every 30 seconds, 90d retention

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions from teams using Amazon Managed Prometheus.

We're already using AWS. Why switch from AMP?

AMP is just the backend. You still need to manage Grafana separately, and you're paying AWS's premium pricing. Oodle gives you the complete solution (Grafana UI + backend) at 50% of the cost, with better performance and zero operational overhead.

How can Oodle be cheaper than AWS's managed service?

AWS's pricing model is designed to maximize revenue, not minimize your costs. Oodle's architecture is fundamentally more cost-efficient, and we pass those savings directly to you. Plus, you eliminate the hidden costs of managing multiple services.

We have compliance requirements that require us to stay on AWS.

Oodle is SOC 2 Type II compliant and can meet most enterprise compliance requirements. If you absolutely need to stay on AWS, we can discuss deployment options that work within your constraints.

Start Saving 50% in Minutes

A simple, risk-free path to better performance and lower costs.

Sign up & dual write

Add Oodle as a second remote_write endpoint in prometheus.yml.

Your AMP setup continues. No risk.

Migrate Grafana Dashboards

1-click migration of all dashboards and alerts.

See the speed and cost savings for yourself.

Decommission & Save

Once you're confident, decommission your AMP instance.

Watch your AWS bill—drop.

We provide white-glove migration support for all customers to ensure a smooth, zero-disruption transition.

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