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Phillip Carter
Just a few short months ago, we talked about a bunch of updates to Honeycomb’s support for OpenTelemetry. To the surprise of no one, we’ve got more updates to share!
Liz Fong-Jones
You know that old adage about not seeing the forest for the trees? In our Authors’ Cut series, we’ve been looking at the trees that make up the observability forest—among them, CI/CD pipelines, Service Level Objectives, and the Core Analysis Loop. Today, I’d like to step back and take a look at how observability fits into the broader technical and cultural shifts in technology: cloud-native, DevOps, and SRE.
Charity Majors
I am thrilled to share with you that Honeycomb now has a Field CTO: our very own Liz Fong-Jones.
George Miranda
How do you solve the people and culture problems that are necessary in making the shift to adopt observability practices? And once you instill those changes, how do measure the benefits?
Matt Morris
Today, I’d like to tell you about a new community-contributed integration that connects Honeycomb to your ServiceNow workflows. My new integration reimagines what’s possible when connecting observability tools with ITSM systems. This post explains how it works and how to get started with it.
Nick Rycar
Feature Focus: September 2022. Here’s a look at improvements we’ve made to Honeycomb in September, including: updates to a buuunch of APIs, new integrations, and Refinery upgrades.
In the beginning, there were people who wrote and ran software. At some point, we spun away ops skills from dev skills into two different professions, but that turned out to be a ginormous mistake, so along came DevOps to reunify them. Nowadays, ops as an independent profession is in the process of fading out. Companies are spinning down their ops teams left and right. Engineers who formerly identified as sysadmins or operations have turned into DevOps engineers, and soon there will just be “software people” again. This is the way of things.
Learn how Jimdo, Upgrade, and Campspot benefited from OpenTelemetry, whether in improved performance, or by avoiding vendor lock-in.
Nick Travaglini
Part of understanding a complex, distributed software system as a socio-technical system means taking seriously that the signals the stewards receive aren’t just chatter.
Martin Thwaites
Let’s dig into what we mean by an Availability Check and how that maps to observability, tracing, and supporting production systems.
In this post, we’ll look at how to host the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps. There are a few gotchas with how it’s deployed, so hopefully this will stop you from hitting the same issues.
Fred Hebert
A few weeks ago, we had a couple of incidents that ended up impacting query performance and alerting via triggers and SLOs. These incidents were notable because of how challenging their investigation turned out to be. In this review, we’ll go over interesting patterns associated with growth, and complex systems—and how these patterns challenged our operations.
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Guest Blogger
You use NGINX as a proxy for your application, and you want to leverage Honeycomb’s amazing features to help make sense of the traffic data. Have no fear: Honeycomb has a solution just for you.
Today, we’re announcing major new updates to Honeycomb’s PagerDuty integration. These updates put more of the information you need into PagerDuty notifications and allow for greater configurability. These enhancements are available to all users who leverage Honeycomb Triggers and Burn Alerts to send notifications via PagerDuty.
Just like any aspect of development, poor integration, invisible bottlenecks, and bugs can plague your CI/CD pipelines. And debugging them? Well, it’s complicated. To see what I mean, just fire up your favorite search engine to find content on “debugging CI/CD pipelines.” Look at all the different tools, studios, and blogs full of advice—it’s soul crushing.
Feature Focus: August 2022. Here’s a look at improvements we’ve made to Honeycomb in August, including: better filtering capabilities, derived columns editor, and a new copy button.
Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)
“Dear Miss O11y, I’ve been following Honeycomb for a long time, and I understand where the insights from observability fit in. But larger orgs haven’t experienced this yet. When you’re talking to a C-level executive or director, how do you speak to this? What success stories do you cite that have traction at this level?”
We’ve got a lot of OpenTelemetry-flavored honey to send your way, ranging from OpenTelemetry SDK distribution updates to protocol support. We now support OpenTelemetry logs, released a new SDK distribution for OpenTelemetry Go, and have some updates around OpenTelemetry + Honeycomb to share. Let’s see what all the buzz is about this time!
Sasha Sharma
Someone once described dashboards to me as “expensive TV for software engineers.” At first, I stood there quietly shocked—dashboards had informed many root cause analyses (RCAs) in my life as a developer. Dashboards can be expensive TV—and sometimes even harmful false cocoons of safety (“Uh, p90 looks okay 🤷♀️!”) —but, approached instead with an analytical lens, they should be a pulse check for overall system health and a jumping-off point for investigations.
Pierre Tessier
SLOs—or Service Level Objectives—can be pretty powerful. They provide a safety net that helps teams identify and fix issues before they reach unacceptable levels and degrade the user experience. But SLOs can also be intimidating. Here’s how a lot of teams feel about them: We know we want SLOs, we’re not sure how to really use them, and we don’t know how to debug SLO-based alerts.
