The observability bill tripled and finance wants to know who spends what. How do you attribute costs per team?

Attribution is an incentive-design problem: own-team labels at ingest, unit pricing per signal, monthly showback before any chargeback, sanctioned levers so teams can actually respond.

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Attribution is an incentive-design problem: own-team labels at ingest, unit pricing per signal, monthly showback before any chargeback, sanctioned levers so teams can actually respond.

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