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LoginHoneyByte: Make a Beeline Toward Observability Just Like DEV’s Molly Struve
“When things broke,” Molly explained, “you’re mad scrambling—jumping from website to website to website, trying to put the pieces together.” Molly was able to use...
Right at Home in My New Role
(Get it? Because I’m working from home...) Hi, I’m Shelby 👋 I’m a new Developer Advocate at Honeycomb. The New Normal What a strange time...
Challenges with Implementing SLOs
A few months ago, Honeycomb released our SLO — Service Level Objective — feature to the world. We’ve written before about how to use it...
OpenTelemetry: New Honeycomb Exporters
We’re really big fans of OpenTelemetry at Honeycomb. As we’ve blogged about before, OpenTelemetry is the next phase of the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects. Instead...
Chad Malchow, VP Sales Joins Honeycomb
Welcome to the Hive & Observability Community. Though it may ultimately be remembered for a multitude of other things, for us at Honeycomb, 2019 was...
The Future of Software is a Sociotechnical Problem
"Sociotechnical" I learned this word from Liz Fong-Jones recently, and it immediately entered my daily lexicon. You know exactly what it means as soon as...
Honeycomb Welcomes New VP Engineering
(Why it’s so important to look inside your org before you look outside) I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of...
They Aren’t Pillars, They’re Lenses
To have Observability is to have the ability to understand your system’s internal state based on signals and externally-visible output. Honeycomb’s approach to Observability is...
Bring Test Engineering into your DevOps practice
What do a test engineer and a DevOps or SRE team member have in common? The reality is that different teams need to proactively understand...
"Hot-take" on 3 Popular Open Source Tools & The Observability Landscape
New eGuide takes a closer look at Prometheus, ELK and Jaeger: Open source tooling has its benefits. No licensing costs and you’re free to download,...
Using Honeycomb to remember to delete a feature flag
Feature flags are great and serve us in so many ways. However, we do not love long-lived feature flags. They lead to more complicated code,...
How To Make Your Customers Happy, with Eaze
"Success is a catastrophe that you have to survive." -- CJ Silverio A couple of weeks ago I had the great pleasure of hosting CJ...
So You Want To Build An Observability Tool...
I've said this before, but I'm saying it again: observability is not a synonym for monitoring, and there are no three pillars. The pillars are...
The Path from Unstructured Logs to Observability
Are you starting out on your journey toward observability? Do you have a mandate from management, or are you a lone warrior in the matrix?...
Notes from Observability Roundtables: Capabilities Deep-dive
Greetings, fellow o11ynaut! You may recall a post we shared here about two months ago that told tales of the themes we felt best represented...