Taming Tag Sprawl in Hybrid Environments

When scaling rapidly in a hybrid cloud environment, turning on automatic telemetry ingestion feels like a necessity for speed. But wild-card configurations can quickly trigger an operational crisis: tag bloat, duplicate values, metric clutter, and absolute ambiguity over data origins. Nobody wants noisy data, and it leads to unnecessary costs with no value provided.

Join Ashley Krygier, Principal Engineer at CapitalOne, to get a real-world blueprint of how they executed a sweeping Tagging Strategy overhaul. She will dig into volume vs cost analysis, resolving tag ambiguity and aggregating scattered reports across teams. Then hear how her team navigated restructuring Datadog Agent and Cluster Agent configurations to replace global ingestion with source-aware allow-lists and structural namespacing. A time consuming process but one that kept the production environment smoothly running while changes happened behind the scenes.

You will walk away with a scalable methodology for untangling multi-tenant data stream ownership and building cross-platform relationships to resolve downstream blind spots.