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Scaling Nightmares, Cardinality Limits, and Endless Operational Toil

Operational Overhead

"We have 2 SREs who are full-time Prometheus/Thanos admins."

— Head of SRE

"We are constantly overprovisioning to recover from oom-kills and time-outs."

— Platform Engineering Lead

"Our monitoring system alerts more than our production apps. It's ironic!"

— DevOps Manager

Slow

"Our main Prometheus instance OOM-killed during an incident because of a cardinality spike."

— SRE Manager

"Long-range queries are a joke. We have to wait minutes for a 14-day view, if it doesn't time out first."

— Head of Platform

"We bolted on Thanos to scale, and now we manage two complex distributed systems instead of one."

— Senior SRE

Hidden Costs

"The real cost isn't the VMs. It's the engineering time we burn just to keep the lights on."

— VP of Engineering

"Our cloud bill for the monitoring stack was a surprise. The HA setup really adds up."

— Cloud Architect

"We started self-hosting to save money, but when you factor in the time lost during incidents, we're definitely losing."

— DevOps Engineer

You chose to self-host for control and cost savings, but ended up with a second full-time job. Oodle delivers on the full promise of Prometheus without the pain.

Fantastic Metrics Experience at Open Source Cost

Fully Managed, Blazing Fast Performance, AI-powered

Oodle is a fully managed serverless, drop-in replacement for Prometheus and Grafana, built for scale. It comes with the Grafana UI you love, but supercharged a backend that handles any cardinality, eliminates query timeouts.

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
Debug incidents faster with AI-powered root cause insights

Reliable

Fully Managed. 99.9% available
No single points of failure
Zero operational overhead

Cost-effective

Predictable pricing
No infrastructure costs
Save on engineering time

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Oodle AI vs. Self-Hosted Prometheus: Feature Deep Dive

Feature Dimension	Oodle AI	Self-Hosted Prometheus	Oodle Advantage
Grafana UI	✅ Included & Fully Managed	❌ Requires Separate Self-Hosting	Oodle is a complete solution. With self-hosting, you have yet another component to manage, secure, and scale.
Operational Overhead	✅ Zero Operational Overhead	❌ Extreme	Reclaim 1-2 full-time engineers. Oodle handles all scaling, tuning, and upgrades. You manage nothing.
Scalability	✅ Effortless & Automatic	❌ Requires Thanos/Cortex	Oodle's serverless design scales infinitely out of the box. Self-hosting requires adding and managing even more complex components to scale.
High Availability	✅ Built-in & Automatic	❌ A Major DIY Project	Oodle is built on serverless & S3. Achieving this yourself requires complex configuration, data deduplication, and constant management.
Total Cost (TCO)	Predictable, All-Inclusive Price	High & Hidden	Oodle's price is often lower than the combined cost of your VMs, storage, network traffic, AND the salaries of engineers needed to manage your setup.
Cardinality Handling	✅ Natively Supported. No Limits	❌ A Constant Risk	Oodle's architecture is built for high cardinality. In self-hosted Prometheus, 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 self-hosting, this is a constant, manual chore.

Simple, Predictable Pricing

Oodle's transparent model typically saves teams money compared to the hidden costs of self-hosting.

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 self-hosting Prometheus.

We self-host for control and to avoid vendor lock-in. Why switch?

Oodle gives you the benefit of control without the burden of work. Because Oodle is a 100% Prometheus-compatible drop-in replacement, there is no vendor lock-in. You use the same open standards (PromQL, remote_write) and can point your metrics to another system anytime. You give up the operational pain, not your freedom.

How can a managed service be cheaper than our raw infrastructure bill?

It's about Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Your real cost isn't just the VMs; it's the fully-loaded salary of the engineers you dedicate to managing, scaling, and troubleshooting your monitoring stack. When you factor in that massive cost, Oodle's predictable price is often a significant saving. Our architecture is also fundamentally more cost-efficient to run at scale.

We've already invested months setting up a complex Thanos/Cortex cluster. Is it worth it to switch?

That's a classic sunk cost. The real question is: How many more engineering hours will you spend on it this month? And the next? Switching to Oodle stops the operational bleeding immediately and lets you re-assign your most valuable engineers from maintaining infrastructure to building your core product.

Start Reclaiming Your Time in Minutes

A simple, risk-free path to zero operational overhead.

Sign up & dual write

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

Your self-hosted setup continues. No risk.

Migrate Grafana Dashboards

1-click migration of all dashboards and alerts.

See the speed and reliability for yourself.

Decommission & Save

Once you're confident, decommission your old Prometheus instance.

Watch your stress levels—drop.

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

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