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FinOps Insights for IT Leaders

FinOps insights for IT leaders often focus on cloud spend, but IT leaders know that real cost drivers extend across hybrid environments. Achieving clarity requires more than budget reports. It requires understanding how workloads behave over time, how performance and capacity shift, and where visibility gaps hide operational and financial risk. To support those efforts, we sat down with Tim Conley, creator of Galileo, to explore practical FinOps insights for IT leaders.

Web API Sample Endpoints to Practice Monitoring & Testing

APIs rarely fail in isolation. They fail under load, during token refresh, when a dependent service slows down, or when a multi-step workflow breaks halfway through. And yet most engineers still test and monitor APIs using mock endpoints that behave nothing like the real thing.

HPE OpsRamp Software Named a Major Player in the IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Observability Platforms 2025

Observability platforms help IT teams continuously monitor service health and performance, driving superior service quality and customer experience. Access to deeper diagnostics and actionable insights from observability tools lets IT operators drive scalability, resilience, and service reliability across complex, distributed environments.

M-Dashes, the Cookie Monster & DEX: The BIG Reality Bites 2025 Finale

It’s our favorite Reality Bites tradition: the end-of-year panel! Tom and Tim bring the whole crew together—Megan, Ariana, Sean, and Dina—for a joyful, honest, and insight-packed reflection on 2025. From global travel and AI breakthroughs to personal milestones, hard-won lessons, and the music that carried us through the year, the team shares what defined a transformative moment for DEX, for Nexthink, and for each of us. Expect candid takes on AI balance, ambition, slop, mediation, vibe-coding, human connection—and a full round of “song of the year” picks from the whole panel. A warm, funny, heartfelt wrap to a huge year.

Ep 22: re:Invent recap

In this episode of Masters of Data, we're breaking down AWS re:Invent 2025 through David's eyes (and probably a few cups of conference coffee). We dive into the massive crowds, killer customer conversations, and product demos that actually worked—because we're all about building real tech, not smoke-and-mirrors clickbait. David geeks out over Mobot, our AI tool that's making workflows smoother (not just another chatbot in disguise), and how attendees couldn't get enough of the live demos. We also throw some shade at the AI-washing epidemic and dig into why practical AI applications in security and observability actually matter.

Keep service ownership up to date with Datadog Teams' GitHub integration

Engineering organizations depend on clear team ownership to maintain reliable services and move quickly. But as codebases expand and teams shift, answering basic questions—Who owns this service? Who should be paged in an incident? Are teams meeting operational standards?—becomes harder.

Monitor One Icinga 2 Cluster From Another

Icinga is designed to be a highly dynamic monitoring software that can monitor your setup, regardless of its architecture. While most setups are hierarchical and fit well into the master, satellites, and agents scheme with different zones, it is sometimes impractical or impossible to create one large Icinga 2 cluster. Imagine that you are responsible for only some hosts within another organization.

Elastic's move to free on-demand training

Students can now learn what they need within the Elastic stack anytime. The Elastic Training team has shifted its on-demand training strategy from paid to free! Yes, you heard that right — complimentary on-demand training is now readily available to everyone. The Elastic Training team is continuously developing and releasing bite-sized training modules designed to align with Elastic solutions and highlight key features.

Bindplane in 12 Minutes: A Complete Overview of the Telemetry Pipeline for OpenTelemetry at Scale

Bindplane is a unified telemetry pipeline that helps teams cut observability spend by 50% or more. In this overview, you will learn how to route telemetry from any source to any destination, manage large fleets of OpenTelemetry Collectors, and gain real visibility into collector health, state, throughput, and routing behavior.