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Comment on Ask HN: What was the most expensive / impactful commit you ever made?

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I have a few that saved some cost. For example turning of metrics generation for _all_ host headers on NGINX instances serving millions of users.

That “feature” cost outages during security attacks and a quite significant SaaS bill, because we were also ingesting the logs of the dying NGINX instances.

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