Every metric earns its place: How Rapid7 eliminated 1.4B series, saving $4M, and made every developer a cost owner

Over the last 18 months, cybersecurity leader Rapid7 shipped over 2 billion time series across its observability stack and prevented nearly 66% of them from ever being ingested — saving over $4 million. That number didn't come from a cost-cutting mandate, but rather a team culture where every metric series has to earn its place, paired with the ability to discard what doesn't matter, provided by Grafana Cloud's Adaptive Telemetry.

In this session, Principal Software Engineer Carl Eastman discusses why Adaptive Telemetry was the deciding factor in Rapid7's multi-vendor evaluation, and what the cost win actually opened up for the organization. Development teams now proactively request Adaptive Metric rules — not because they're told to, but because the culture shifted to observing what matters.

Learn how the cost savings opened the door to broader Grafana Cloud adoption at Rapid7, from enabling interns to build production dashboards on day one with Grafana Assistant, to reinventing support by utilizing Frontend Observability and Grafana Assistant to understand real user journeys and troubleshoot errors.