CTO Craft Con 2021

Over and over, we’ve seen that teams who invest in adding rich, relevant context to their telemetry end up debugging faster and collaborating more effectively during incidents. Getting meaningful context added can feel like a big cross-team project, but some of the highest-leverage improvements don’t require app code changes or coordination across services.

In this post, we’ll describe what traces are, how they work, and the value traces provide in observability, helping stakeholders understand their systems and delivering reliable services at scale and performance.

When we talk to new Honeycomb users, a few things stand out as sounding downright magical. Sometimes we'll hear, "Wow, is that a new feature?" and we'll say that no, it's been like that for years.  Clearly we need to get the word out!