Drasken Labs

Know what's broken before your customers do

Metrics, logs, traces and alerts for apps and Kubernetes, set up and run by engineers. From $750.

  • Alerts that mean something
  • Open-source stack you own
  • Telemetry costs kept in check

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An engineer replies with a price and a plan. Working with clients in the US, UK, Canada, UAE and India.

Registered company
Since 2025
Certified engineers
OSCP & CEH
Our work

Systems we watch in production

We only show work we can publish, starting with the site you are using right now.

Built and run by us · Kubernetes health checks

draskenlabs.com

The problem
Catch a hung or unhealthy pod quickly, without a CMS outage pulling every replica out of service.
What we built
Separate startup, readiness and liveness probes on a health endpoint that does no I/O, so a slow boot is not mistaken for a failure and a CMS outage never marks the site unhealthy. Autoscaling runs on cluster metrics.
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  • Built and run by us · SaaS platform

    WA Console

    The problem
    A WhatsApp Business API platform needs webhooks, queues and an API that stay up while customers send messages.
    What we built
    The production environment, deployment pipeline and monitoring behind the product, operated by the same team.
    See WA Console
Pricing

Fixed project prices. Agreed in writing.

Pick a starting point. Every quote lists scope and price before work starts.

  • Monitoring Foundation

    The essentials: know when something is wrong.

    From$750

    • Infrastructure metrics
    • Application metrics
    • Uptime monitoring
    • Dashboards
    • Basic alerts
    Get my fixed quote
  • Most chosen

    Metrics + Logs

    Metrics plus centralized, searchable logs.

    From$1,500

    • Metrics
    • Centralized logs
    • Log search
    • Retention configuration
    • Dashboards
    Get my fixed quote
  • Full Observability

    Metrics, logs and traces working together.

    From$2,500

    • Metrics, logs and traces
    • OpenTelemetry where appropriate
    • Kubernetes monitoring if needed
    • Basic SLIs/SLOs
    Get my fixed quote

Also available

  • Advanced ObservabilityFor complex, distributed production systems.from $5,000
  • Enterprise / Complex ObservabilityMulti-team, multi-cluster or regulated environments.from $10,000
  • Managed observabilityDashboards, alerts, upgrades and a monthly review after setup.from $200/month

Cloud infrastructure, storage, telemetry ingestion and platform charges are billed separately by those providers.

Final price depends on services, environments, telemetry volume and retention.

How it works

From first call to full visibility

  1. 1

    Review

    We look at what you monitor today, where the blind spots are and what telemetry costs.

  2. 2

    Design

    We agree what to measure, log and trace, and which tools to use, in writing.

  3. 3

    Set up

    We deploy the stack, build dashboards and add alerts that need someone to act.

  4. 4

    Hand over

    We test that alerts fire, document it all, and can keep it running monthly.

Our promises

Better visibility, without the lock-in

Four commitments in every project, in writing.

  • Your stack, your data.

    Telemetry stays in accounts you own, and you keep every dashboard, alert and config.

  • Fixed project price.

    Scope and price are agreed before work starts. Extra work only happens if you approve a new quote.

  • Every alert needs action.

    We add alerts someone has to act on, with severity and routing, not more noise.

  • Running costs estimated first.

    We size telemetry volume and retention with you, so storage and ingestion costs are known up front.

Built with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Alertmanager and OpenTelemetry, or alongside the hosted tools you already use.

Free observability review

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We look at what you monitor today and send the top 3 gaps.

Current tools
Where you run
FAQ

Questions before you start

How much does observability cost?

Monitoring Foundation starts from $750 (₹50,000 in India), Metrics + Logs from $1,500 (₹1.25 lakh in India) and Full Observability from $2,500 (₹2.5 lakh in India). A paid assessment starts from $300 (₹25,000 in India), advanced work from $5,000 (₹4 lakh in India) and complex or enterprise work from $10,000 (₹8 lakh in India). Managed observability starts from $200/month (₹15,000/month in India). Cloud, storage and telemetry ingestion are billed separately.

What is the difference between monitoring and observability?

Monitoring checks known conditions, such as CPU, error rate or uptime, and tells you when something is wrong. Observability combines metrics, logs and traces so engineers can work out what happened, where and why, including problems nobody set an alert for. It gives your team the evidence; it does not find every root cause automatically.

Why does observability matter if nothing is broken?

Because you find out about problems from telemetry instead of from customers. It helps you spot incidents as they start, troubleshoot with data instead of guesswork, see how services depend on each other, cover Kubernetes and servers in one place, and find the issues that keep coming back.

Can you work with our existing Prometheus, Grafana or Datadog setup?

Yes. We often extend an existing Prometheus and Grafana setup, adding logs or traces and fixing dashboards and alerts, rather than starting again. We also work alongside hosted platforms such as Datadog or New Relic, and recommend a change only when cost, coverage or limits justify it.

Do we need distributed tracing and OpenTelemetry?

Not always. Tracing pays off when requests pass through several services and it is hard to see where they slow down or fail; a single app with a database can often manage with metrics and logs. When tracing is needed, OpenTelemetry lets you instrument once and send data to the backend you choose.

Can you monitor Kubernetes?

Yes: cluster and node health, workloads, restarts, container logs, Kubernetes events, ingress and service traffic, connected to the metrics and traces of the applications running on it.

How do you keep telemetry costs down?

With retention set per data type, trace sampling, filtering noisy logs, keeping high-cardinality labels such as user IDs out of metrics, aggregation and removing telemetry nobody uses. How much this saves depends on your current setup, so we estimate it after a review rather than promising a percentage.

Can you run the stack for us after setup?

Yes, as an optional monthly service from $200/month: dashboard and alert upkeep, pipeline maintenance, upgrades, retention management, health checks and a monthly review. 24/7 incident response needs a separate agreement. If you want us to run the infrastructure too, that is Cloud & DevOps.

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