X World 2025

macOS Metrics for Cost Optimisation

Do your Engineers really need a fully specced MacBook Pro Max with 128GB of memory? Can your customer service team survive with a minimum spec MacBook Air with an 8 core CPU? Answering these questions can be hard, so this session will look at ways you can monitor performance metrics across your macOS fleet so you can make sure you are providing your users with performant devices, while optimising for cost. In the session we will find out what metrics may be useful to look at, ways you could collect them using your MDM, and how to analyse the results in Datadog with dahsboards.

About the presenter

After getting his start in the world of macOS as a Lead Genius at Apple, Steven has gone on to work in the Client Platform Engineering team at Block (also known as Square/Afterpay) and is now a Senior Engineer on the Device Management team at Canva.