Collapse the stack.
Keep the coverage.
Four monitoring tools you contracted. Four more you didn’t know you had. Before anything is sunset, Panaptico verifies the surviving tool covers the full expected population — real denominators, not vendor claims — keeps both sides observed through the switchover, and gates retirement on verified absence: nothing still depends on what you turn off.
Observed · 4 sanctioned
Splunk
$3.20M/yr
Logs · SIEM-adjacent search
New Relic
$680K/yr
APM · browser · mobile
Dynatrace
$1.10M/yr
Infra · full-stack APM
AppDynamics
$940K/yr
Business APM · transaction analytics
+ 4 shadow · $587K/yr
Surfaced as findings, with evidence — none in the declared inventory.
Surviving tool
Datadog
- Capabilities covered
- 8 of 8
- Coverage
- 98.1%
- Evidence freshness
- ≤ 5m
- Unknown
- 35 services
Spend reclaimed
$3.41M/yr
$6.51M retiring · $3.10M consolidated · gated on verified absence
The gap
Coverage gaps don’t announce themselves.
01
Vendor claims are not denominators
The surviving tool ‘supports logs’ the way every tool supports everything. Verification asks a harder question: does it cover all 1,847 services you expect — and which ones, exactly, sit in the gap?
02
The switchover is where silence wins
Mid-switchover, the old tool is half off and the new one is half on. A service that stopped reporting looks exactly like a service that’s fine. Panaptico keeps both sides observed and reports the silence as Unknown — never as a pass.
03
Retirement is a claim until absence is verified
Cut the contract and an integration keeps calling the dead tool. Nothing is sunset until Panaptico verifies absence: no workload, integration, or team still depends on what you’re about to turn off.
Shadow discovery
The tools you didn’t know you bought.
Panaptico compares the inventory you declared against what is actually observed across the estate. Every overlapping or unsanctioned tool surfaces as a finding — with evidence, an owner, and the scope it touches.
Findings
4
Owners attributed
4 / 4
Shadow spend
$587K/yr
3× Grafana Cloud tenants
Platform, Data, Mobile eng
$180K
No SSO · personal billing · orphaned dashboards
2× New Relic accounts (out-of-contract)
Acquired team · legacy project
$240K
Auto-renewed · outside master agreement
Honeycomb POC in production
Checkout service
$95K
POC · no SSO · two engineers with keys
Datadog trial, never terminated
SRE sandbox
$72K
Trial became monthly · no owner on record
Coverage matrix
Coverage, verified per capability, per tool.
Every capability is evaluated against its expected population in every tool — covered, gap, or Unknown. Denominators come from observed state, not vendor claims, and a capability that can’t be observed is never assumed covered.
- Logs✓✓?—
- APM · distributed tracing—✓✓✓
- Infrastructure monitoring—✓✓?
- RUM · real-user monitoring—✓✓—
- Synthetic monitoring—?✓—
- Dashboards✓✓✓✓
- Alerting / monitors✓✓✓?
- Business transaction analytics———✓
Switchover verification
Both sides stay observed until the new side is verified.
While workloads move, the retiring tool and the surviving tool are verified side by side — expected population, evaluated coverage, evidence freshness. Gaps surface the moment they open, and nothing is assumed moved.
From
To
Datadog Logs
Logs
both sides observed · ingest parity verified daily · evidence ≤ 5m old
42 TB/day
From
To
Datadog APM
APM · tracing
1,812 verified reporting on the new side · 35 Unknown — never assumed moved
1,847 services
From
To
Datadog Infra
Infrastructure
3,081 at target · 19 off target · old side stays observed until absence is verified
3,100 hosts
From
To
Datadog RUM
RUM
38 verified emitting sessions · 3 Unknown — no traffic observed yet
41 apps
From
To
Datadog Synthetics
Synthetic
both sides evaluated green for 14 days before the old checks retire
317 checks
From
To
Datadog Dashboards
Dashboards
268 verified in use · 454 with no views observed in 90d — retirement candidates
722 dashboards
From
To
Datadog Monitors
Alerts / monitors
612 verified equivalent on the surviving side · 471 redundant · 20 Unknown
1,103 monitors
From
To
Datadog APM + custom metrics
Business txn analytics
1,320 verified covered · 80 gap — surfaced as findings before sunset
1,400 txns
Verified retirement
Retirement is gated on verified absence.
Retiring
$6.51M / yr
Splunk
$3.20M
New Relic
$680K
Dynatrace
$1.10M
AppDynamics
$940K
Shadow tools (4 findings)
$587K
Surviving tool
$3.10M
Datadog · coverage verified across 8 of 8 capabilities
Spend reclaimed / yr
$3.41M
52% reduction · reclaimed as each retirement is verified
Verified absent
2 of 4 tools
Open dependencies
3 · blocking sunset
Four tools, one platform.
Coverage kept. Spend reclaimed.
Panaptico surfaces the shadow tools, verifies the surviving tool against real denominators, keeps both sides observed through the switchover, and gates every retirement on verified absence. The spend comes back — with evidence behind it.