Getting your pricing right is critical to the success of any SaaS company, but finding a model that works can be tough. Price too high, you won’t close enough deals - your business will fail. Price too low, your business model will be unsustainable - your business will fail. To add to the complication, when you’re a new startup your goals are evolving.
We’ve discussed this topic many times during our NinjaOne MSP Live Chats, and the fact is it’s an important question to consider regardless of your plans for exiting your business. Even if you’re not planning to sell your MSP, knowing the factors that play into your MSP’s valuation and understanding the metrics that owners and investors use to evaluate and optimize MSP businesses is key.
Back in November 2021, Grafana Labs released version 2.4 of Grafana Loki. One of the new features it included was a Promtail Kafka Consumer that can easily ingest messages out of Kafka and into Loki for storing, querying, and visualization. Kafka has always been an important technology for distributed streaming data architectures, so I wanted to share a working example of how to use it to help you get started.
