Authors’ Cut—Gear up! Exploring the Broader Observability Ecosystem of Cloud-Native, DevOps, and SRE
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...
Authors’ Cut—Shifting Cultural Gears: How to Show the Business Value of Observability
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...
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: Three Companies Check Into OTel Observability
Learn how Jimdo, Upgrade, and Campspot benefited from OpenTelemetry, whether in improved performance, or by avoiding vendor lock-in....
Sense and Signals
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....
How Do I Do Availability Checks in Honeycomb?
Let’s dig into what we mean by an Availability Check and how that maps to observability, tracing, and supporting production systems....
User Tips: Sending NGINX Logs to Honeycomb
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....
Authors' Cut—No More Pipeline Blues: Accelerate CI/CD with Observability
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...
Dashboards Can Be More Than Just Expensive TV
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...
Authors' Cut—Not-So-Distant Early Warning: Making the Move to Observability-Driven Development
Observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production. Moving from logs to tracing and showing causality can be done locally, as well....
Ask Miss O11y: What Should An "Observability Team" Do?
People use “observability team” as a catchall basket for all kinds of things these days—from cutting-edge tech to truly heinous hacks. Eh, it is what...
Adding Code Tags to Your OpenTelemetry Spans
One of the reasons that OpenTelemetry is great at doing this is that a lot of the common attributes you may find on a span...
Datasets, Traces, and Spans—Oh My!
By giving an overview into datasets, traces, and spans, you’ll get a peek behind the curtain into how Honeycomb facilitates observability in the hopes of...
What Are Some Useful Things to Look for Right Away When You Get Data into Honeycomb?
Here's what some of our customers had to say about Honeycomb features that they found value in right away....
Top Takeaways from Monitorama 2022
Two of our folks went to Monitorama 2022, and they gleaned a few pearls of wisdom they'd love to share with you, including an unexpected,...
Authors’ Cut—How Observability Differs from Traditional Monitoring
In this webinar based on our O'Reilly book, we go over the difference between observability and monitoring - and when to use which....