Listen Notes, a podcast search engine akin to Google for podcasts, significantly reduced its monitoring costs by 90% by replacing the enterprise-grade tools Datadog, PagerDuty, and Atlassian Statuspage with Better Stack. The switch allowed Listen Notes to consolidate infrastructure monitoring, incident management, and status page functionalities into a single, more cost-effective solution, reducing annual expenses from $3,500 to $348. The transition, completed over two weeks, involved shifting from Datadog's metric-based workflow to Better Stack's log-centric model, configuring heartbeat and uptime alerts for incident management, and creating a branded status page with Better Stack's built-in features. The move not only streamlined Listen Notes' operations but also enhanced the developer experience with quicker setup and more accessible customer support, positioning the company to continue meeting its needs efficiently as it grows.