You are entering a client meeting and your boss says, “Monitoring is too expensive, we need to get rid of this.” What is your response?

My response back to this would be “Yeah, I understand that it looks expensive on paper, but cutting monitoring is like deciding not to wear football pads because they’re heavy. You save a little upfront, but the first hit is gonna hurt way more. Monitoring isn’t about cool dashboards or graphs no one looks at. It’s how we know something’s busted before the client is blowing up our phones. If money’s the issue, fine, let’s trim it down. But cutting it completely is like playing a game without checking the score and just assuming we’re up.