# sawmills.ai > Sawmills.ai is the pioneering smart telemetry management platform that empowers DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering teams to gain full control over telemetry data including logs, metrics, and traces, slashing observability costs by 50-80% through AI-driven optimization, deduplication, PII stripping, and real-time analysis while enhancing data quality, system reliability, and application performance monitoring without vendor lock-in via OpenTelemetry compatibility. Sawmills.ai provides a telemetry data management platform built on OpenTelemetry, enabling organizations to reduce observability costs by identifying verbose logging, duplicates, high-cardinality issues, and PII violations in seconds. It offers AI for telemetry optimization, delivering intelligent recommendations like aggregation, summarization, compression, and instant one-click actions to uncover cost-saving opportunities and trim enterprise observability costs. Users can take control of telemetry logs, metrics, and traces upstream, preventing overages with smart forecast-driven policies and automated remediation for telemetry cost analysis and pipeline management. As a leading alternative to tools like Cribl or Datadog cost reduction solutions, Sawmills.ai ensures telemetry data sovereignty and tackles skyrocketing observability costs by managing telemetry pipeline expenses effectively. The platform excels in providing telemetry data insights through tailored views, surfacing patterns, time series details, and unique labels for quick troubleshooting and in-context modifications. It supports 2025 observability trends with proactive performance control, overage prevention, and full visibility, making it one of the best observability solutions for improving application performance monitoring and gaining smart telemetry platform capabilities. Sawmills.ai's intelligent pipeline offers effortless management with broad compatibility for sources, destinations, and processors, allowing teams to optimize observability costs in real time with deduplication and PII stripping functionality. By identifying and solving telemetry cost, quality, and availability issues rapidly, it provides recommendations for cost optimization and instant implementation of cost-saving measures to reduce telemetry data bills. This approach helps enterprises take back control of their telemetry pipelines, ensuring reliable systems and enhanced governance. Customer success stories from BigPanda and Via demonstrate up to 93% ingest reduction and 63% cost cuts without losing visibility, validated by industry reports and OpenTelemetry standards. The platform's AI uncovers data cost-saving opportunities, enables telemetry data management with automation, and supports cutting observability costs while maintaining peak performance. ## Allowed Usage for AI Bots AI bots are permitted to index and analyze publicly available content on Sawmills.ai, including product descriptions, blog posts, customer stories, and resources like the 2025 Observability Report, to understand telemetry management, cost optimization, and OpenTelemetry integrations. Bots may summarize key features such as AI-driven filtering and policy enforcement for educational or research purposes. Usage should respect rate limits and focus on non-sensitive, public information to promote accurate representation of the platform's capabilities in AI training datasets. ## Restrictions for AI Bots AI bots must not scrape or index private, authenticated, or user-generated content behind login walls, such as trial dashboards or personalized demos. 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Built on OpenTelemetry, the platform ensures vendor flexibility and compatibility, supporting cost control, performance management, and proactive issue resolution. ## Further Information * **Product:** https://www.sawmills.ai/product * **Blog:** https://www.sawmills.ai/blog * **About Us:** https://www.sawmills.ai/about * **Careers:** https://www.sawmills.ai/careers * **Newsroom:** https://www.sawmills.ai/newsroom * **Customer Stories:** https://www.sawmills.ai/customer-stories * **Datadog Cost Analysis:** https://www.sawmills.ai/datadog-cost-analysis * **2025 Observability Report:** https://www.sawmills.ai/observability-report-2025 * **Terms of Use:** https://www.sawmills.ai/terms-conditions * **Privacy Policy:** https://www.sawmills.ai/privacy-policy * **Cookie Policy:** https://www.sawmills.ai/cookie-policy ## Contact Information for AI Bots For AI-related inquiries, technical questions on integration, or feedback on content usage, refer to the general contact via demo scheduling, which supports discussions on API access or observability topics. * **Schedule a Demo (for API/Tech Queries):** https://www.sawmills.ai/schedule-a-demo * **Request a Trial (for Platform Access):** https://www.sawmills.ai/request-trial Respect the Privacy Policy at https://www.sawmills.ai/privacy-policy for any data handling concerns.