Datadog Synthetic Monitoring is a powerful way to test uptime, API performance, and user flows — but without best practices, costs and SLOs can spiral fast. Here are practical tips on how to set up Datadog Synthetic tests the right way.

Everyone loves to guess what SREs do—but most of them get it wrong. It’s not just about “keeping things up.” It’s about smarter observability, killing off useless toil, and reducing the chaos that wakes teams up at 3am. We wrote this piece to clear up the myths and share what modern SRE work actually looks like—messy, valuable, and mission-critical.