The SaaS Exit Strategy
Stop the SaaS Tax: Migrate to Open-Source Observability
Stop paying for proprietary agents and inflated storage costs. Our guide provides a battle-tested roadmap to migrate your Metrics, Logs, and Traces to a high-density, high-performance stack powered by VictoriaMetrics and ClickHouse.
Why Engineers Are Switching
Infrastructure-first observability vs. Pricing-first SaaS.
SaaS tools purge logs after 15 days. With ClickHouse, keep years of forensic logs at a fraction of the cost.
Escape limited proprietary DSLs. Use standard SQL in ClickHouse for complex log joins and trace analysis.
Replace static API keys with automated mTLS via Caddy and Smallstep, keeping your telemetry inside your VPC.
The 4-Phase Migration Blueprint
We help you move your telemetry without downtime or data loss.
Phase 1: The OTel Bridge
Deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector as a gateway. Dual-ship your data to both your legacy SaaS and VictoriaMetrics to verify data parity.
Phase 2: Cardinality Sanitization
Use OTel processors to drop redundant labels and scrub sensitive PII, instantly reducing your billable data footprint by 30-40%.
Phase 3: Dashboard & Alert Portability
Migrate proprietary SaaS charts to standard Grafana dashboards using our pre-built templates for Go, Java, and Kubernetes.
Phase 4: Decommission & Scale
Once parity is confirmed, shut down legacy agents. Scale your VictoriaMetrics cluster horizontally to handle your peak loads with ease.
Figure 1.0: Using the OTel Collector to dual-ship data during the transition period.
Calculate Your ROI
Stop paying the "SaaS Tax." See how much you can save by moving to an OpenTelemetry-native architecture.
Input Metrics
VictoriaMetrics averages 15x higher compression than legacy SaaS storage.
Estimated Monthly Savings
$3,750
Download the Full Technical Blueprint
Our 45-page guide includes the exact configurations we use to save clients 6-figures in monthly SaaS costs.
- OTel Collector `config.yaml` best practices
- VictoriaMetrics Sizing & Tuning Guide
- ClickHouse Schema for Distributed Traces
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More Engineering FAQs
How do we handle PromQL parity?
VictoriaMetrics is 100% PromQL compatible and even extends it with MetricsQL. Your existing Grafana dashboards will work out of the box.
Can ClickHouse handle high-cardinality logs?
ClickHouse thrives on high-cardinality data like User IDs or Trace IDs without the "mapping explosion" common in legacy tools.
What about long-term data retention?
With up to 15x compression, you can store years of logs on local storage for the price of 15 days of SaaS storage.
Is mTLS difficult to rotate?
We use Smallstep for automated certificate issuance. The OTel Collector picks up rotated certs without requiring a service restart.
Does this support OpenLineage?
Yes. By using the OTel Collector as a gateway, you can ingest OpenLineage events and route them into ClickHouse.
How do we handle multi-tenancy?
VictoriaMetrics supports multi-tenancy via account IDs in the URL. You can isolate data for different environments within a single cluster.
Success Story
"By deploying the OTel Bridge, we moved 4PB of telemetry from Datadog to ClickHouse in 6 weeks without a single minute of downtime."
Marcus Dawson
VP Infrastructure, Fintech Scaleup
Key Outcomes
- • 15-month retention (Up from 15 days)
- • Sub-second query latency
- • Full mTLS security compliance
Data Privacy & Security
Tracelync is committed to your data sovereignty. We do not sell your telemetry profiles or contact information. All data submitted via our audit forms is encrypted in transit and at rest, used solely for the purpose of generating your TCO report.