Engineering deep-dives, FinOps guides, and product updates from the Lokayoo team.
Engineering
How We Cut Our Observability Bill from $3,200 to $3 a Month
A full walkthrough of replacing CloudWatch Logs, Datadog APM, Grafana Cloud, Security Hub, and CloudHealth with one Helm install on our existing EKS cluster.
AM
Arjun Mehta
March 10, 2026 · 6 min read
FinOps
The 8 AWS Resource Types Silently Draining Your Cloud Budget
Idle EC2 instances, unattached EBS volumes, unused Elastic IPs — how to find them, quantify the waste, and eliminate them without breaking anything.
RS
Rahul Sen
February 28, 2026 · 5 min read
Guide
Going Live in 20 Minutes: A Step-by-Step Deployment Walkthrough
A complete guide to what happens after you run the Lokayoo Helm install — from your first dashboard view to your first security alert.
DN
Divya Nair
February 14, 2026 · 7 min read
Engineering
Why We Store Logs in S3 Instead of CloudWatch (and What It Costs)
CloudWatch is convenient but extraordinarily expensive at scale. Here's the architecture we use and why it costs 99% less.
DN
Divya Nair
January 30, 2026 · 4 min read
Security
The 50 AWS Misconfigurations That Get Engineering Teams in Trouble
Post-production incident data shows teams are still making the same IAM, S3, and networking mistakes. Here's what Lokayoo checks for.
FA
Fatima Al-Hassan
January 15, 2026 · 8 min read
FinOps
FinOps Is Not a Tool — It's a Practice. Here's How to Start.
Most teams treat FinOps as a dashboard. The teams that actually reduce cloud costs treat it as a workflow. Here's the difference.
RS
Rahul Sen
January 5, 2026 · 5 min read
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