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FinOps Savings Optimization: Stop Overspending, Start Saving | Harness Blog

Traditional FinOps focuses on cutting overspend, but the real opportunity lies in maximizing savings you're missing. This paradigm shift reframes cloud cost management as a proactive savings optimization strategy rather than reactive spend control, helping organizations unlock hidden cost efficiency through governance, automation, and continuous optimization practices. Cloud spend is up 40% year-over-year. Your CFO wants answers.

Introducing the redesigned deployments experience

You shouldn’t have to hunt through a cluttered dashboard to understand where your code is deployed. The Deployments page is where teams turn for a quick answer: what is in test, what is in staging, what reached production, and what needs attention right now. The older page made that harder than it needed to be. Our new Pipelines Deployments page makes it easier to scan, filter, and act on.

AI agent cost: what agents really cost to run

AI agent cost in 2026 is mostly a consumption bill, not a subscription. Running an agent costs anywhere from fractions of a cent for a simple routed task to $5 or more for a complex multi-step job, because one request can trigger 3 to 10 model calls behind the scenes. Average production deployments land between $3,200 and $13,000 per month in operational spend. Here is where that money actually goes.

Shipped: Stop guessing why that billing connection exists

Every team with more than a few data connections has had this moment: someone opens the connections list, points at one, and asks “what is this for?” The answer lives in a former teammate’s head or in a Slack thread. And cleaning up the wrong connection can break cost ingestion. Now each connection can carry a note that explains why it exists, and anyone who opens the connection sees it.

AI can't correlate what was never standardized

Steve Flanders (Senior Director of Engineering, Splunk) makes the case that AI can't save an observability stack that never agreed on a standard. Mix formats across metrics and logs, and AI stops correlating and starts guessing, which means you either make the wrong call or miss the answer you actually needed. OpenTelemetry is one fix, but Prometheus and Fluentd work too. The standard matters more than which one you pick.

What Is OTN?

The Optical Transport Network (OTN) is a widely deployed industry-standard protocol that provides a comprehensive framework for multiplexing, switching, and transporting diverse digital payloads over optical fiber. Modern service providers face growing pressure to consolidate diverse traffic types. OTN acts as a universal digital wrapper, encapsulating Ethernet, IP, SONET/SDH, and storage (Fibre Channel) traffic into a single, highly efficient transport layer.

Google SecOps (Chronicle) Pricing in 2026: Full Cost Breakdown and How to Cut It

Google SecOps, formerly Chronicle, is sold in three packages priced on ingestion volume, and Google publishes no list prices for any of them. Every quote is built around your data volume, retention needs, and package tier, which makes budgeting hard without a sales conversation. This guide breaks down how the pricing model actually works, what ends up on a real bill. It also covers how to reduce that bill before data reaches the platform. Prefer to jump straight to the numbers?