Everyone’s talking about observability. Here’s what it actually means.
The term has been stretched to cover everything from dashboards to AIOps. In Observability Engineering, Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda explain the real definition and why it matters now more than ever. Don’t wait—download your copy today.
What you’ll learn in the book
See clearly, build better
Understand the value of observability when managing complex cloud-native apps and systems.
Clarity for every engineer
See the impact observability has across the entire software engineering cycle.
Teamwork makes the SLOs work
Learn how different teams can work together to draft SLOs that work for both business and engineering.
From code to customer impact
Recognize how software developers contribute to the customer experience and business impact.
Debug with context
Produce quality code for context-aware debugging and maintenance.
Faster fixes with better telemetry
Leverage data-rich analytics to find answers quickly when maintaining site reliability.
Meet the authors of Observability Engineering
Charity Majors
Co-founder & CTO of Honeycomb
Charity pioneered the concept of modern observability, drawing on her years of experience building and managing massive distributed systems at Parse, Facebook, and Linden Lab.
She is the co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering (O’Reilly).
She loves free speech, free software, and single malt scotch.
Liz Fong-Jones
Field CTO, Honeycomb
Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with over two decades of experience. She is currently the Field CTO at Honeycomb, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights.
She lives in Vancouver, BC with her wife Elly, partners, and a Samoyed/Golden Retriever mix, and in Sydney, NSW. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.
George Miranda
VP Marketing, InsightFinder AI
George is a former systems engineer now working to promote developer tools he believes in. Previously, he spent more than 15 years building large-scale distributed systems in the finance and video games industries.
In his free time, George likes to do things far less dangerous than getting into arguments about observability—like motorcycle racing and helicopter snowboarding.
What Honeycomb helps you do
The future of software is nondeterministic. Your business can’t be. Understanding production has never been more critical.
