An Observability Guide From Someone with a Precarious Grasp on the Topic
I’m Phillip, a product manager here at Honeycomb. After eleven-ish months of working on our product, I totally understand observability, right? ...Kinda? Sorta? Maybe? I'm...
✨ The ✨ Book✨ Is ✨ Done✨
The book is done. The book is FINISHED. There will be no more writing of the book! Holy macaroni. If you think you might be...
Observability for New Teams: Part 1
Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development—is...
ICYMI: Achieving Visibility in Your CI/CD Pipeline With Honeycomb + CircleCI
Before continuous integration came to be, setting up builds was no fun because the complexity and overhead involved in a release cycle was compounded by...
Why Intuitive Debugging Has Stopped Working for You
It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. Why is that? Shouldn’t we have gotten better at this...
How Time Series Databases Work—and Where They Don't
In my previous post, we explored why Honeycomb is implemented as a distributed column store. Just as interesting to consider, though, is why Honeycomb is...
Observability: The 5-Year Retrospective
Two years ago, I wrote a long retrospective of observability for its third anniversary. It includes a history of instrumentation and telemetry, a detailed explanation of the...
Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store
Honeycomb is known for its incredibly fast performance: you can sift through billions of rows, comparing high-cardinality data across thousands of fields, and get fast...
The State of Observability in 2021
Observability adoption has increased as more companies seek to understand how their applications behave in production and quickly identify and resolve problems. Our second annual...
ICYMI: How Honeycomb Can Help You Achieve the Deployment Part of CI/CD
In case you missed it, this webinar includes code walkthroughs that help you to add observability to your pipelines (using a free Honeycomb account!) so...
6 Steps to Getting Started With Observability
During my office hours, I frequently get asked for practical tips on getting started with observability. Often it’s from folks on teams who are already...
On Not Being a Cog in the Machine
This is my first week here as the first dedicated SRE for Honeycomb, and in a welcoming gesture, I was asked if I wanted to...
Introducing the o11yday Bootcamp
Getting started with observability (o11y) is now easier than ever with the new step-by-step o11yday Bootcamp guide. Now’s a great time to try out Honeycomb,...
The Future of Ops Careers
For most teams, operations engineering is more necessary than ever. Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors describes what that work looks like for modern software teams, and...
Intro to o11ycast: A Human Perspective on the Role of Observability
Customer Success Engineer Emily Ashley describes her experience listening to the o11ycast backlog as part of her onboarding, and why the podcast is a great...