This workshop covers both the theory and practice of observability. You’ll familiarize yourself with both Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry with hands-on exercise, and also learn how to introduce observability into your organization.

You will learn:

• The differences between monitoring, telemetry signals, and observability
• Sending trace data to Honeycomb from a sample application via OpenTelemetry
• Practicing the core analysis loop to identify performance issues using Honeycomb with the Home, Query Builder, Distributed Trace, and Raw Rows data views
• Adding application-specific metadata to further enrich your traces
• Sharing query results with your team

This session offers a quick introduction to instrumenting your applications with the vendor-neutral OpenTelemetry framework.

See how Honeycomb integrates distributed tracing into your debugging workflows, with no context switching required.

Learn how using BubbleUp in your debugging workflow helps you analyze billions of rows of data across thousands of high-cardinality fields to quickly spot outliers that may be the source of hidden issues.

Honeycomb’s service-level objectives (SLOs) offer more actionable alerts with less noise. They’re also integrated right into your debugging workflows.

Observability is great for applications, but metrics can be useful for debugging system issues. See how those two debugging workflows integrate in Honeycomb.

Your build pipelines can also have observability. Learn how to debug your CI/CD workflows with Honeycomb.

Honeycomb constantly ships new features to production, so it’s hard to keep up sometimes. In this session, we’ll look at recent highlights and the best new things you’ll want to know about and use.