Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

There’s no doubt about it: The cloud cost landscape changes quickly. It seems like every month brings new updates from the cloud providers and several new resources you can use to master FinOps within your organization. Here are the top cloud cost news headlines you may have missed from February 2025: Read on for the details.

Right now. Without any training or extra “work” needed on your part. If you’re an emergency medical technician (EMT,) utility lineman, forklift operator, delivery driver, or other frontline worker who can’t do much without your rugged tablet, there’s one thing that comes to mind: AI can reduce button pushes. What do I mean?

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is supposed to be the great equalizer in observability, giving teams full control over how they collect, process, and store telemetry data. It was built to be open, flexible, and vendor-neutral. Grafana Alloy claims to be OpenTelemetry-compatible, but scratch beneath the surface, and you’ll see that, based on our investigations, it is not a neutral OpenTelemetry Collector.

The push towards digital transformation and cloud-native infrastructure is massive, yet organizations also need to maintain legacy capabilities. With this pressure comes the need to manage operations with the same rigor and automation we apply to infrastructure, coding, and security. Many organizations have embraced the ideas of everything in a pipeline and all things as code.

Ever wish your cloud bill came with a “cut by 40%” button? While we haven’t invented that (yet), we’ve built something even better. Tidal Accelerator now automatically identifies where AWS Graviton instances can slash your cloud costs and boost performance—all without the guesswork.

One of the most important features in a comprehensive enterprise-grade web monitoring solution is synthetic monitoring. Below, we answer some frequently asked questions, so that you can clearly understand what this is, how it works, and why it’s essential vs. optional.

As software teams race to integrate AI into their development workflows, we need to ask ourselves: are AI-powered tools actually making software better? The latest research from DORA confirms what many engineers have long suspected, and what we at Honeycomb have said for a long time: AI tools don’t magically lead to better software. In fact, without careful implementation, AI can introduce a whole slew of challenges, including decreased productivity and unreliable code.

Telecommunications (telecom) is the foundation of modern connectivity, enabling the transmission of voice, data, and multimedia across vast distances. Telecom companies build, operate, and maintain extensive infrastructure that supports everything from mobile networks and broadband internet to enterprise communication systems. This infrastructure includes fiber-optic cables, cell towers, satellite systems, and data centers that work together to deliver seamless connectivity.

Playwright isn’t a testing framework. Sure it’s got assertions, scripted behaviors, even controls over environments. But testing isn’t Playwright’s only purpose. Playwright is an automation tool. It can carry out any browser-based action consistently, and carry out instructions robustly. Locators for buttons and other elements aren’t visual or CSS class-based, but based on ARIA role, and even small styling changes won’t make the scripted action fail.