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How to Gain In-Depth Observability of Your Kubernetes Clusters

How to Gain In-Depth Observability of Your Kubernetes Clusters

How to Gain In-Depth Observability of Your Kubernetes Clusters

In the breakneck world of modern software development, it’s hard to find teams that don’t use microservices, containers, and Kubernetes to get code out the door faster. But with the speed of deployment and delivery comes a very high degree

Observability Kubernetes Engineering Best Practices

Getting Started with OpenTelemetry

No one ever said observability would be easy, right? But OpenTelemetry is a significant step towards “easier” observability because it’s…

OpenTelemetry Observability Instrumentation Engineering Best Practices

Getting Started With Distributed Tracing

The more complex the software, the more likely it is to break, so the question facing modern DevOps teams today…

Observability Engineering Best Practices Distributed Tracing

How Observability Helps With Incident Response

No one knows what they don’t know. That rather elusive statement is at the heart of one of the biggest…

Observability Incident Response Engineering Best Practices

Understanding High Cardinality and Its Role in Observability

Complex distributed systems generate vast amounts of granular data that is ideal for diagnostics. Most of the time… But it…

Observability High Cardinality Engineering Best Practices

SLOs, SLAs, SLIs: What’s the Difference?

At the end of the day, so much of software development is wrapped up in two basic concepts: happy customers…

SLOs Observability Engineering Best Practices

What Is Observability Engineering?

Although it may seem like something out of fantasy, it is possible to find out what you don’t know you…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Upleveling Engineering Productivity with Observability

Promote happier and healthier engineering teams, optimize cost and performance, and deliver more innovation by implementing observability. Whether you’re starting…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Create a Board for Real User Monitoring

Learn the first steps toward creating a Real User Monitoring-style dashboard in Honeycomb.

Observability

Understanding Increased Response Times

In this video, we explore the Latency graph to understand representations of the density of spans. We identify key areas…

Observability Debugging

Identifying Patterns in Your Data

In this video, we explore the Total Spans graph and manipulate the window of time to isolate an issue with…

Observability Debugging

Exploring the Honeycomb Home Page

In this video, we explore the Dataset Home Page to understand the purpose of its graphs and tables with a…

Observability

Reducing Mean Time to Diagnosis: How Salary Finance Uses Honeycomb to Ask the Right Questions

Salary Finance is a UK-based financial well-being employee benefit program. Over the last seven years, the company grew from a…

OpenTelemetry Observability Debugging Customers AWS

How FireHydrant Implemented Honeycomb to Streamline Their Migration to Kubernetes

Migrations of any kind—whether to new platforms like Kubernetes or new tools like Honeycomb observability—include a commitment to cultural change.…

Observability Migrations Kubernetes Customers

De-Risk Your Deployments with Honeycomb & GitHub Actions Deployment Protection…

De-Risk Your Deployments with Honeycomb & GitHub Actions Deployment Protection Rules

Observability Engineering Best Practices CI/CD Pipelines

The New Test-ament: Decoding LLMs and Generative AI with Observability…

Join Honeycomb's Charity Majors and Redmonk's James Governor as they discuss Observability for LLMs and Generative AI.

Observability Incident Response Customers

Logs are Trash: How Massdriver Implemented Honeycomb to Reduce Alert…

Massdriver's Dave Williams discusses how he implemented Honeycomb to reduce alert fatigue with Honeycomb's Martin Thwaites and Rebecca Carter.

Observability Logs Incident Response Customers

Observability Engineering Book Club

Have you read the O’Reilly Observability Engineering book yet? Or maybe, like us, it’s still taunting you from the edge…

Observability

Ep. #60, Customer-Centric Observability with Todd Gardner and Winston Hearn

In episode 60 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Todd Gardner of TrackJS and Winston Hearn of Honeycomb. This…

Observability Metrics

Ep. #59, Learning From Incidents with Laura Maguire of Jeli

In episode 59 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Laura Maguire of Jeli and Nick Travaglini of Honeycomb. They…

Observability Incident Response

Ep. #58, Game Development with Brenna Moore of Second Dinner

In episode 58 of o11ycast, Jess and Liz speak with Brenna Moore of Second Dinner. This conversation explores game development…

Observability

Ep. #57, Monitoring K8s Applications with Shahar Azulay of Groundcover

In episode 57 of o11ycast, Jess and Martin speak with Shahar Azulay of Groundcover about monitoring Kubernetes applications, improving the…

Observability Kubernetes APM

Honeycomb & OpenTelemetry for in-depth observability

Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry combine to give you the most detailed and actionable insights into the behavior of your system so…

OpenTelemetry Observability

Honeycomb & Odyssey Interactive

Hear from Odyssey Interactive to learn how they implemented Honeycomb to accelerate development time and quickly resolve issues in AWS…

Observability Incident Response Debugging Customers

Successful Sampling With Refinery

Honeycomb's trace-aware proxy, Refinery, allows you to sample your data to reduce costs while giving you the ability to ensure…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

How to search for requests (vs all events) in Honeycomb

Have you ever looked at someone else’s Honeycomb query and thought “what’s up with ‘trace.parent_id does not exist’? Or wondered…

Observability

Learn to Leverage Service Maps with Honeycomb

Having a service map is great, but what can you actually do with one? Wouldn’t it be great if you…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Trace at Your Own Pace: Three Easy Ways to Get…

At Honeycomb, we’ve helped countless customers start their tracing journey, and in this technical session we’ll take you through some…

Observability Distributed Tracing

Intercom Accelerates Developer Productivity With Observability and Distributed Tracing

Intercom’s mission is to strengthen the relationship between businesses and their customers through better communication. With that in mind, they…

Observability Distributed Tracing Customers

Learn How NS1 Uses Distributed Tracing to Release Code More…

Hear how NS1 used distributed tracing to scale their organization and accelerate their migration from a monolith to microservices.

Observability Migrations Distributed Tracing

Your Systems Can Now Tell You Where Problems Lurk

Charity Majors, Pierre Tessier, and customer guest Zach McCoy from Jack Henry present a technical session. You’ll see a first-of-its-kind,…

Observability Incident Response Debugging

Using Honeycomb to Optimize CI/CD Delivery Pipeline Performance with GitLab

This step-by-step guide uses a sample app to walk you through hands-on exercises that show you how to instrument your…

Observability CI/CD Pipelines

Using Honeycomb to Optimize CI/CD Delivery Pipeline Performance with CircleCI

This step-by-step guide uses a sample app to walk you through hands-on exercises that show you how to instrument your…

Observability CI/CD Pipelines

Making the Case: The Business Value of Observability

In this session, we unpack how to understand where you are on the observability maturity curve, build the business case…

Observability

Intercom: Building a More Resilient Ecosystem Through Observability

Intercom and Honeycomb discuss how Intercom uses distributed traces to streamline their observability workflows, allowing their product engineers to learn…

Observability Distributed Tracing

Options for Managing Telemetry Volume At Scale & How Slack…

You’ll learn the pros and cons of different sampling techniques and how to retain granular visibility into your system state.…

OpenTelemetry Observability Engineering Best Practices

Ep. #55, The Dev Side of Observability with Martin Thwaites of Honeycomb

In episode 55 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Martin Thwaites, a developer advocate at Honeycomb. They discuss the…

Observability Logs Engineering Best Practices

Accelerate CI/CD with Observability

We are joined in this session by Frank Chen, Senior Staff Software Engineer, Slack, who dives into how Slack gained…

Observability Engineering Best Practices CI/CD Pipelines

Changing Practices on Your Team - Observability Driven Development

In this session, we discuss the patterns we’ve observed at Honeycomb that have helped organizations reap the rewards of observability…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, and What to Buy…

Resolve incidents quickly with the powerful core analysis loop of an observability tool—where anyone on the team can form hypotheses,…

Observability Engineering Best Practices Debugging

Ep. #54, Cloud Native Observability with Alex Boten of Lightstep

In episode 54 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones and Jessica Kerr speak with Alex Boton of Lightstep. They discuss Alex’s book…

OpenTelemetry Observability Instrumentation

Technical Q&A Session for New Honeycomb Users

Now that you are a Honeycomb user, we would like to officially welcome you to the club! This casual, interactive…

Observability

How Observability Relates to DevOps, SRE, & Cloud Native

We unpack how observability fits into the landscape of other modern practices, such as DevOps, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), and…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Ep. #53, Seduced by Reality with Jean Yang of Akita Software

In episode 53 of o11ycast, Charity and Jess speak with Jean Yang of Akita Software about legacy software, API-driven observability,…

Observability

What is Honeycomb.io?

See how Honeycomb turns production software from a black box into a fountain of insight about code and customer experience.…

SLOs Observability Debugging

Honeycomb Named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™

For the second consecutive year, Gartner has positioned Honeycomb as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Application Performance Monitoring…

Observability

How Observability Differs from Traditional Monitoring

With a technical foundation in place, this session cuts through the marketing hype to deliver a concrete — and capability-based…

Observability Debugging APM

Five Reasons to Get Started With Honeycomb Enterprise

Honeycomb Enterprise introduces a cohesive set of features for companies that operate at enterprise scale. While every Honeycomb tier helps…

Observability

Gain Complete Observability With Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry

Get the most out of your data by instrumenting OpenTelemetry with Honeycomb for actionable insights into every aspect and every…

OpenTelemetry Observability

Metrics in Honeycomb

Debugging performance issues can be difficult without a view of systems data along with your application data. Honeycomb Metrics enables…

Observability Metrics

Structured Events Are The Basis of Observability

In this inaugural Authors’ Cut session, we kick off your observability journey by exploring the fundamental technical requirements needed for…

OpenTelemetry Observability Instrumentation Distributed Tracing

How Heroku Uses Metrics Within Honeycomb

Sarah Sherbondy and Jeremy Morrell of Heroku join Honeycomb for a conversation on how their team is taking advantage of…

OpenTelemetry Observability Metrics High Cardinality

Ep. #51, Performance Engineering with Henrik Rexed of Dynatrace

In episode 51 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr are joined by Henrik Rexed of Dynatrace. This conversation covers…

Observability Instrumentation Engineering Best Practices

Ep. #50, Identifying Weak Spots with Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit

In episode 50 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Jessica Kerr are joined by Benjamin Wilms of Steadybit. This conversation examines…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Tracing in Honeycomb

In this three and a half minute video, we show you how to find all the details associated with your…

Observability Distributed Tracing

Honeycomb Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

In this three minute video, you’ll see how Honeycomb’s actionable SLOs can help you get to the source of an…

SLOs Observability

Best Practices Using Honeycomb and Terraform Provider With Hashicorp

Jason Harley, Honeycomb Senior Customer Architect and Hashicorp Ambassador, and Nic Jackson, Principal Developer Advocate at Hashicorp, demonstrate best practices…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Intro to o11y Topic 1: What Is Observability?

In this video, Jessica clears up some important terminology on observability.

Observability

Intro to o11y Topic 2: Get Your Honeycomb Team

The first step to observability is to copy an application and link it to your Honeycomb account. To link them,…

Observability

Intro to o11y Topic 3: Get Your Own Sample App

The Intro to o11y video tutorial series will use a sample app called Sequence of Numbers to demonstrate Honeycomb’s functionality.…

Observability

Intro to o11y Topic 4: Connect Your App to Honeycomb

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr explains how to connect your app to Honeycomb using an API key.

Observability

Intro to o11y Topic 5: Dataset Troubleshooting

If you don’t see your dataset in Honeycomb once you’ve connected your app, it’s time to troubleshoot. In the two…

Observability

Intro to o11y Topic 6: Looking at Your First Data in Honeycomb

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr explains how to start looking at your first data in Honeycomb. From the…

Observability

Intro to o11y Topic 7: Interpreting Honeycomb’s Trace View

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr explains how to interpret the data in Honeycomb’s powerful trace view.

Observability Distributed Tracing

Intro to o11y Topic 8: Using Heatmaps of Duration in Honeycomb

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr explains how to use the heatmap of duration, or latency graph, in Honeycomb.…

Observability Debugging

Intro to o11y Topic 9: Filtering for Root Spans in Honeycomb

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr explores an important subtlety of Honeycomb queries: filtering for root spans. The latency…

Observability

Intro to o11y Topic 10: Using BubbleUp to Find Distinguishing Factors in Honeycomb

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr demonstrates how to use the BubbleUp tab to ask “what is different about…

Observability Debugging

Intro to o11y Topic 11: Using “Group By” with a Heatmap

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr explains how to use the “group by” field in a heatmap to further…

Observability

Intro to o11y Topic 12: Customizing the Telemetry in Honeycomb

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr explains how to add custom telemetry to Honeycomb. Jessica will cover how to…

OpenTelemetry Observability

Intro to o11y Topic 13: Refining a Trace in Honeycomb

In this video, Developer Advocate Jess manipulates the trace view to get a better idea of what’s happening in the…

Observability Distributed Tracing

Intro to o11y Topic 14: Querying Spans within a Single Trace in Honeycomb

In this video, Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr demonstrates how to use the query editor to do analysis on the spans…

Observability

Fast Debugging and Optimization with Honeycomb

Our datastore and query engine are purpose-built to detect patterns across billions of requests containing high-cardinality and high-dimensionality data, in…

Observability High Cardinality Debugging

Getting Started With Honeycomb Client-Side Instrumentation for Browser Applications

This whitepaper shows you how to apply core observability concepts to debugging performance issues with client-side applications. You can use…

Observability Debugging

Tracking Core Web Vitals with Vercel and Honeycomb

Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV) are used to rank the performance of mobile sites or pages. It’s easy to see…

Observability

Honeycomb’s O’Reilly Book Observability Engineering - By Charity Majors, Liz…

Authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda cut through the marketing hype to concretely demonstrate what observability is, how…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Ep. #48, Mastering Migrations with Adriana Villela of Tucows

In episode 48 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz chat with Adriana Villela of Tucows. They unpack Adriana's journey into observability,…

Observability

Honeycomb OpenTelemetry User Group

Learn about successful adoption patterns from Honeycomb customers in this virtual engineering discussion with Mike Goldsmith, Telemetry Engineer of Honeycomb,…

OpenTelemetry Observability Instrumentation

Modernizing a 20-year-old codebase with observability

Nick Herring, CCP’s Technical Director of Infrastructure, and Liz Fong-Jones, Honeycomb’s Principal Developer Advocate, have a conversation about CCP’s efforts…

Observability Migrations Kubernetes

Ask Miss O11y AMA

Charity, Jessica, and Liz quickly recap some observability highlights of 2021 and then open the floor to attendees to ask…

Observability

Transitioning From APM Tools to Honeycomb

This guide will help you and your teams ensure a smooth and successful migration away from multi-tool APM suites by…

Observability Debugging APM

How Glofox Gives Their Developers Ownership Over Observability

Pierre Vincent and Rob Meaney were able to join forces to establish a culture of observability and give their developers…

Observability High Cardinality Engineering Best Practices

The Five Characteristics of a Good SLO

This guide covers the basics of SLOs, why their use is preferred as a leading-edge practice in observable systems, and…

SLOs Observability

Instrumenting With OpenTelemetry

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

OpenTelemetry Observability Instrumentation

Instrumenting With OpenTelemetry

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

OpenTelemetry Observability Instrumentation

Finding Outliers With BubbleUp

Learn how using BubbleUp in your debugging workflow helps you analyze billions of rows of data across thousands of high-cardinality…

Observability High Cardinality Debugging

Debuggable Service Level Objectives

Honeycomb’s Service Level Objectives (SLOs) offer more actionable alerts with less noise. They’re also integrated right into your debugging workflows.

SLOs Observability Debugging

Honeycomb Metrics

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

Observability Metrics Debugging

Pipelines and Buildevents

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

Observability Debugging CI/CD Pipelines

A Look at New Honeycomb Features

Honeycomb constantly ships new features to production, so it’s hard to keep up sometimes. In this session, we’ll look at…

Observability

Reliable Alerting for Honeycomb Triggers and SLOs With PagerDuty

Now that your SLOs are running, how does the team know when critical systems are in trouble? Join Developer Advocates…

SLOs Observability Incident Response Debugging

Reliable Alerting for Honeycomb Triggers and SLOs With PagerDuty

Now that your SLOs are running, how does the team know when critical systems are in trouble? Join Developer Advocates…

SLOs Observability Incident Response Debugging

Controlling Features in Production: Observability + Feature Flags

We often think about speed and danger as being closely related, but we now have empirical proof that faster, smaller…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Building Observability in Your CircleCI Deploy

In this talk, you’ll learn how Honeycomb keeps its CircleCI workflow duration at about 10 minutes per build through parallelizing…

Observability Engineering Best Practices CI/CD Pipelines

Building Observability in Your CircleCI Deploy

In this talk, you’ll learn how Honeycomb keeps its CircleCI workflow duration at about 10 minutes per build through parallelizing…

Observability Engineering Best Practices CI/CD Pipelines

Graph Observability: Honeycomb and Apollo GraphQL With OpenTelemetry

Learn how to use Honeycomb, Apollo Studio, and Open Telemetry to optimize GraphQL performance for a federated graph. See how…

OpenTelemetry Observability

Graph Observability: Honeycomb and Apollo GraphQL With OpenTelemetry

Learn how to use Honeycomb, Apollo Studio, and Open Telemetry to optimize GraphQL performance for a federated graph. See how…

OpenTelemetry Observability

Ep. #47, Outcome-based Observability with Gibbs Cullen of Chronosphere

In episode 47 of o11ycast, Liz Fong-Jones speaks with Gibbs Cullen of Chronosphere. Together they compare the roles of product…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Ep. #46, Guiding Observability Teams with James Deville of Procore Technologies

In episode 46 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity are joined by James Deville of Procore Technologies. James shares the insights…

Observability

Happy Campers: Confidently modernize services with observability

Watch this conversation with Campspot and learn how they instrumented Honeycomb quickly and are leading the way to a modern,…

Observability Instrumentation Debugging

How Distributed Tracing Uncovers Half-Truths in Your Applications

In this ebook, you’ll learn about how teams at Slack, CircleCI, eero, and Intelligent Medical Objects (IMO) are using new…

Observability Distributed Tracing

Real-world Engineering Lessons: Switching From APM To Honeycomb

Learn how you can achieve better uptime, build high-quality and fast user experiences, know where exactly to invest engineering time…

Observability APM

Take Control of Your Observability Data: An Engineering Roundtable on…

Learn about successful adoption patterns from teams at Campspot, Upgrade, and Jimdo during an engineering roundtable discussion with Phillip Carter…

OpenTelemetry Observability

Observability Into Game Server Deployment & Performance Through Instrumentation

Honeycomb helps you understand how unfamiliar systems actually behave, regardless of what you know about them upfront. Liz and Michael…

Observability Instrumentation

Getting Started with Honeycomb Metrics

You can use metrics and events in the same interface for observability. This whitepaper shows you how to get metrics…

Observability Metrics Debugging

Observability in Sociotechnical Systems: How to Use Telemetry Data to…

Learn how site reliability engineering (SRE) and tooling, and when helpful tools lead us to dark patterns that hurt us,…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Ep. #45, Choosing OpenTelemetry with Chris Holmes of Simply Business

In episode 45 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz are joined by Chris Holmes of Simply Business. Together they unpack OpenTelemetry,…

OpenTelemetry Observability Distributed Tracing

How Intelligent Medical Objects Solved a Mysterious Spike in Latency…

Michael Ericksen, Staff Site Reliability Engineer, explains how IMO implemented observability and established a culture of production excellence when a…

Observability Engineering Best Practices Debugging

How to Use a Single Wide Event to Its Fullest…

Glen Mailer, Senior Staff Software Engineer at CircleCI believes not everything can or should be solved with tracing and sampling.…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Adopting Observability: Lessons Learned On How to Reduce Cognitive Load

At hnycon, we hosted a roundtable discussion with a few of our guest speakers about the lessons they’ve learned while…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

How Refinery Helps With Sampling Complex Event Data

In his talk at the 2021 hnycon, Kevan Carstensen, Backend Engineer at GOAT, explained that GOAT’s small backend team is…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Honeycomb's Forrester Total Economic Impact (TEI) Study

This study by Forrester Consulting, commissioned by Honeycomb, quantifies the impact of five important variables: increased incremental revenue due to…

Observability

Coding a New Customer Experience: How Vanguard Upleveled Their Org…

Rich Anakor, Chief Solutions Architect at Vanguard, runs a small team with a colossal goal: Give Vanguard customers a top-notch…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Honeycomb's Forrester Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) Report Webinar

In this webinar, Forrester details how implementing Honeycomb's observability solution not only helped four companies quickly resolve incidents and build…

Observability

HelloFresh Improves Organization-Wide Performance With Honeycomb

HelloFresh, the world's leading meal kit company, provides customers across 14 countries with wholesome, homemade meals with no shopping and…

Observability Incident Response Customers

Mode Analytics: Hot-Swapping Active Production Services Reliably With Honeycomb

The Mode Analytics backend team is updating different services in their stack by hot swapping them in production. Watch this…

OpenTelemetry Observability Migrations Engineering Best Practices Customers

Hot Swapping Active Production Services Reliably With Honeycomb

The Mode Analytics backend team is updating different services in their stack by hot swapping them in production. Watch this…

OpenTelemetry Observability Migrations Engineering Best Practices

Instrumentation Options Designed For Success

Instrumenting your code is the first step toward observability. The telemetry data emitted by your applications and systems will help…

OpenTelemetry Observability Instrumentation

Honeycomb & OpenTelemetry: Instrumentation Should Be Boring

OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that can be used to instrument, generate, collect and export telemetry…

OpenTelemetry Observability Instrumentation

Vanguard's Adoption Journey: How Honeycomb Helps Shape Developer Workflows

After evaluating multiple approaches to distributed tracing, Vanguard ultimately landed on using OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb. Now, they have hundreds of…

OpenTelemetry Observability Engineering Best Practices Customers

Building Observability Metrics With OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry provided trace data stability earlier this year. Now, project contributors are enhancing metrics support in OpenTelemetry. This means the…

OpenTelemetry Observability Metrics

How Tracing Uncovers Half-truths in Slack’s CI Infrastructure

Frank Chen shares how traces gave us a critical and compounding capability to better understand where, when, how, and why…

Observability Distributed Tracing CI/CD Pipelines

Red Hat: Observability & Refactoring in a Java Monolith: A…

This talk covers hard lessons learned by a small team at Red Hat over the past few years as they…

Observability Migrations Customers

Intelligent Medical Objects: The Curious Case of the Latency Spike

Michael covers false starts during early issue investigation including cold starts, provisioned concurrency, and function memory limits. You'll learn how…

Observability Incident Response Debugging Customers

CircleCI: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of a Single Wide Event

Using only a single event for each valuable business transaction, and packing it with fields, we can reduce event volume…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Honeycomb Battle Scars: Lessons From Honeycomb Customers

This session is a roundtable discussion with speakers you've heard from throughout the conference. Each speaker will share their one…

Observability Customers

hnycon Keynote

Join Honeycomb co-founders Christine Yen and Charity Majors for a look into the present and the future of observability, as…

Observability

How Honeycomb Manages Incident Response

Fred covers the full incident lifecycle at Honeycomb, all the way from first detecting issues to resolving them. But most…

SLOs Observability Incident Response

The Business Value of Observability

This panel moves beyond the technical aspects of observabilty to examine the business case for adopting this new way of…

Observability Incident Response

Landing Observability in the Enterprise

John describes the key challenges teams need to overcome, and provides both specific and actionable advice to overcome those challenges.…

Observability

Stepping Our Way Into Resilient Services

Is it possible to discover unknown-unknowns proactively with Chaos Engineering? Where exactly is the intersection between intentionally breaking production services…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

The Future of Observability

In 2018, Peter Alvaro joined us at o11ycon to deliver a visionary and thought-provoking talk around the problems we had…

Observability

o11ycon Keynote

Nora Jones and Charity Majors share their experience leading major movements shaping the future of shipping software. Nora Jones is…

Observability

Conditional Distributed Tracing

Distributed tracing is generally a binary affair—it's off or on. Either a trace is sampled or, according to a flag,…

Observability Distributed Tracing

Driving Observability Adoption Forward as an Internal Champion... During a…

Josh from Amperity covers how they planned, strategized, and organized their observability tooling evaluation. Josh also shares how the COVID-19…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Modernizing Availability Thinking at Babylon

Babylon has a vision to bring affordable and accessible healthcare to the world. A key part of that vision is…

SLOs Observability

OpenTelemetry, Not Just for Production Troubleshooting

In this talk, Michael will show you how to leverage OpenTelemetry to gather and analyze data from production and how…

OpenTelemetry Observability

Eyes Wide Open: o11y From Theory to Practice

Peter covers his team's journey, including how they did the early integration, included interactions with existing tooling that was available…

Observability Instrumentation

Ep. #40, Player Experience with Nick Herring of CCP Games

In episode 40 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Nick Herring of CCP Games. They discuss the challenges faced…

Observability Engineering Best Practices Debugging

Ep. #39, Sell The Sizzle with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian

In episode 39 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jordan Simonovski of Atlassian. They explore the differences between tracing…

Observability Logs Distributed Tracing

Observability Maturity Community Research Findings 2021

Our report takes a look at the observability landscape and how practices are evolving. Learn where your organization is on…

Observability

Ep. #38, Infrastructure Changes with Andy Davies of Reaktor

In episode 38 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Andy Davies of Reaktor. Their conversation covers the importance of…

Observability Logs Instrumentation

Ep. #37, Synchronization Layers and Logs with Garry Shutler of…

In episode 37 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Garry Shutler of Cronofy. Together they pull back the curtain…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Honeycomb Logger for Cloudflare Demo

In this short video, we demonstrate the Cloudflare Worker Honeycomb Logger library to highlight how easy it is to get…

OpenTelemetry Observability

DevOps Unbound- The Road to GitOps

Hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley are joined by Kurt Chase ‎Senior Director, Global Release Management of Tricentis, Charity Majors,…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Achieving Production Excellence at Scale

Whether you’re a startup building new services from scratch or in a brownfield enterprise environment, this webinar offers expert advice…

SLOs Observability

Achieving Observability

This guide discusses the history, concept, goals, and approaches to achieving observability in today’s software industry, with an eye to…

Observability

Nailing the Deployment Part of CI/CD with Honeycomb

Honeycomb’s Charity Majors and Pierre Tessier show you what it’s like to have observability in your builds and why that’s…

Observability CI/CD Pipelines

Ep. #32, Managing Hardware with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal

In episode 32 of o11ycast, Liz and Shelby speak with Gianluca Arbezzano of Equinix Metal. They discuss diversifying the way…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Building with Observability: Using CircleCI and Honeycomb to achieve production…

If you find it challenging to sift through alerts for crucial notifications, we want to show you how Service Level…

Observability Customers CI/CD Pipelines

Ep. #31, Rewarding Curiosity with Ellen Chisa of Dark

In episode 31 of o11ycast, Charity Majors and Ellen Chisa of Dark discuss the benefits of making observability tools more…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Embedding Observability Into Your Engineering Culture

How can you create a safe culture that enables engineers to learn, try, and test? The data unlocked by observability…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Outreach Engages Their Production Code with Honeycomb

Outreach is the number one sales engagement platform with the largest customer base and industry-leading usage. To more proactively understand…

Observability Customers AWS

Ep. #27, Ready For Observability with Corey Quinn of The…

In episode 27 of o11ycast, Liz and Charity are joined by Corey Quinn of The Duckbill Group. They zero in…

Observability

Infographic 2020 Observability Maturity Survey Results

Research findings show a strong link between observability capabilities and production excellence. We found that advanced observability tooling and practices…

Observability

Ep. #26, Unknown Unknowns with Parveen Khan of Square Marble…

In episode 26 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Parveen Khan of Square Marble Technology. They discuss Parveen’s journey…

Observability

Fast & Simple: Observing Code & Infra Deployments at Honeycomb,…

In this talk, you'll learn about the architecture and operational practices used by an engineering team of less than a…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Progressive Delivery: Using Feature Flags & Observability to Ship Confidently

Progressive delivery lets you see whether or not new changes will benefit users before they’re really released. This webinar explores…

Observability Engineering Best Practices CI/CD Pipelines

Honeycomb Observability Platform Demo

Watch this quick overview video as one of the Honeycomb Engineers takes you through Honeycomb's unique style of observability. You…

SLOs Observability Incident Response Debugging

Observability Helps You See What Looks Weird

In this conversation for The New Stack Makers, Charity Majors discusses a number of themes relating to observability and monitoring,…

Observability APM

Buyer’s (and Evaluator’s) Guide to Observability

Evaluating observability tools can be a daunting task when you’re unfamiliar with key considerations and possibilities. This guide steps through…

Observability

Bees Working Together: How ecobee’s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb

For ecobee squads, using Prometheus and Grafana for system and application monitoring helped identify broad aggregate performance issues like spikes…

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Derived Columns: Adding additional "virtual" fields to your data

Learn how to use Honeycomb Derived Columns to create "virtual fields" that are calculations based on the value of other…

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Using Honeycomb Boards: Collect and share your queries

Learn how to use the Honeycomb Boards feature to create jumping-off points for exploration in Honeycomb.

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Honeycomb Visualizations

Seeing is believing! This video showcases all the visualization features and options offered in the Honeycomb query builder.

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Observability Sheds Light on Dark’s Business Growth and Customer Scaling…

Dark’s engineering team relied on logs to understand how users interacted with their platform. But a desire for both deeper…

Observability Logs Customers

OpenTelemetry Collector: Getting Data into Honeycomb

The OpenTelemetry Collector can be used to consolidate and process data from multiple different services. This video explains the OpenTelemetry…

OpenTelemetry Observability

Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Collector Demo

In this video, we demonstrate the OpenTelemetry Collector and its new Honeycomb exporter functionality using Hipster Shop (a microservices demo…

OpenTelemetry Observability

What is Honeycomb's BubbleUp?

When there's a problem, which field has the clue? BubbleUp analyzes behind-the-scenes data, identifying the most likely fields with the…

Observability High Cardinality Debugging

How Does Tracing Work in Honeycomb?

With Distributed Tracing, quickly troubleshoot and understand how your distributed systems behave in production.

Observability Distributed Tracing

Query Interface Demo

Become the best debugger using Honeycomb's Query Interface to find the source of major issues in production.

Observability Incident Response Debugging

The Socio-Technical Path to High Performing Teams - With Animation

We are far behind where we should be as a profession when it comes to how much of our effort…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Ep #19, Giving Observability a Name with Shelby Spees of Honeycomb

In episode 19 of O11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Shelby Spees of Honeycomb. They discuss Shelby’s diverse engineering background,…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Tradeoffs on the Road to Observability - With Animation

The main way to improve sustainability of services is to empower engineers, not just SREs, to understand their systems. Liz…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Ep. #18, Real User Monitoring with Michael Hood of Optimizely

In episode 18 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Michael Hood, a senior staff performance engineer at Optimizely. They…

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Observability Maturity Community Research Findings

Adopting observability tools, site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, and a culture of shared ownership translates to efficiencies across the software…

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Ep. #17, Leveling Up Software Delivery with Pete Hodgson

In episode 17 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz are joined by Pete Hodgson, an independent software delivery consultant. They discuss…

Observability Engineering Best Practices CI/CD Pipelines

SEDNA’s Product Team Reduces Reliance on Internal Team Knowledge with…

SEDNA's Product team wanted to consolidate and bring consistency to their monitoring and alerting. Incident response relied too much on…

Observability High Cardinality Engineering Best Practices Customers

Ep. #16, Observability and Test Engineers with Abby Bangser of MOO

In episode 16 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz are joined by Abby Bangser of MOO. They discuss observability from a…

Observability

Optimizely Innovates Safely At Speed with Honeycomb

Being able to ask any question and get answers fast with Honeycomb meant Optimizely could take an "evolutionary step" and…

Observability Customers

Eaze Into Observability

Join us to learn how Eaze reduced the costs of running their service and increased customer happiness at the same…

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Student Beans Solves Issues, Levels Up Immediately with Honeycomb

The team at Student Beans weren't able to locate issues or trust the data they were getting from their cumbersome…

Observability Debugging Customers

Ep. #12, Speed of Deployment with Rich Archbold of Intercom

In episode 12 of O11ycast, Charity Majors and Liz Fong-Jones speak with Rich Archbold of Intercom. They discuss the crucial…

Observability High Cardinality Engineering Best Practices

Never Alone On-call

Switch from deep query to a trace waterfall view and spot outliers with Honeycomb BubbleUp heatmaps. These make debugging effortless,…

Observability Incident Response Debugging

A New Framework for An Observability Maturity Model

Everyone is talking about "observability," but mapping out a game plan to get there has not yet been clearly defined.

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Framework for an Observability Maturity Model

Everyone is talking about "observability", but many don’t know what it is, what it’s for, or what benefits it offers. The…

Observability

Building Your Observability Practice with Tools that Co-exist

Honeycomb's goal is to augment and expand your ability to deliver  your service and improve your bottom line, not require…

Observability High Cardinality Debugging APM

BubbleUp to Spot Outliers in Production

Use BubbleUp to select outliers on the heatmap and drill down to all related fields in that data. It will…

Observability Debugging

Gamers Won’t Wait: Dead By Daylight Gets Some Sweet Attention

The team at BHVR use Honeycomb to troubleshoot performance issues in production and are able to identify the source of…

Observability Debugging Customers APM

Geckoboard Gets the Context They Need to Keep Customers Happy Without Breaking the Bank

Geckoboard built their own system health dashboards and have been using standard log search tools since the time when log…

Observability Logs Customers

LaunchDarkly Guesses Less, Knows More With Next-Gen APM

With Honeycomb, LaunchDarkly's team is solving the problems they couldn’t before. They were recently able to identify and resolve an…

Observability Debugging Customers APM

The New Rules of Sampling

It is not feasible to run an observability infrastructure that is the same size as your production infrastructure. Past a…

Observability Logs Cloud Costs

The Open Source Observability Landscape

With this guide, we take a closer look at the most popular open-source approaches for storing and accessing app telemetry.…

OpenTelemetry Observability Cloud Costs

Developing a Culture of Observability

Observability gives engineers insight into how their systems function and how users experience the resulting services; it allows you to…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

The Path from Unstructured Logs to Observability

If you’re trying to achieve observability starting with  unstructured logs, you’ve got some work ahead of you. Logs are no…

Observability Logs Instrumentation

See The Trace? Discover Errors, Latency & More Across Distributed…

Quickly identify where there are errors or latency in your code or service, even within third-party services you use.

Observability Debugging

De-stress Debugging Triggers, Feature Flags & Fast Query

Curtail performance issues and reduce customer impact with the right tools to better understand production systems, right now.

Observability Debugging

Calculating Costs for Observability

Debugging in production is a requirement for modern teams, especially for teams who ship frequently. DevOps teams need the best…

Observability Cloud Costs

Ep. #9, High Performance DevOps with Jez Humble

In episode 9 of o11ycast, Charity and Rachel sit down with Jez Humble, Co-Founder and CTO of DevOps Research and…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Instrument Better for a Happy Debugging Team

With Honeycomb, a little instrumentation will give vast insights as soon as you ingest your data. With Honeycomb Beelines, we…

Observability Instrumentation Debugging

Observability For Developers

This guide provides the means to measure your current level of observability practice and how to get to the next…

Observability

Ep. #7, Observability at Asana and Honeycomb

In episode 7 of O11ycast, Charity is joined by fellow Honeycomb team member Michael Wilde along with Asana's heads of…

Observability

Preventing Bad Actors from Spoiling the Show at carwow

carwow's team used Honeycomb to identify a hacker affecting the experience of everyone else on their site by breaking down…

Observability Incident Response Debugging Customers APM

Honeycomb Tracing Drives Efficiencies as carwow Scales

The explosive growth at carwow meant they needed Honeycomb Tracing to understand the complexity ineherent in their architectural decisionmaking, decoupling…

Observability Distributed Tracing Customers

Ep. #2, Observable DevOps with Christina Noren of CloudBees

In episode two of O11ycast, Rachel and Charity are joined by Christina Noren, Chief Product Officer for CloudBees, to look…

Observability Engineering Best Practices

Ep. #1, Monitoring vs. Observability

In episode one of O11ycast, Merian Ventures' Rachel Chalmers and Honeycomb's Charity Majors dive into a few ways observability can…

Observability APM

Intercom Speeds Up Their Busiest Endpoint by 50%

Intercom's engineering teams used Honeycomb to slice and dice how their code performed across many dimensions and were able to…

Observability Customers

Honeycomb at Fender: Faster Answers, Happier Customers

Fender's platform team uses Honeycomb to provide top-tier service to their customers via their AWS Lambda and Go architecture, allowing…

SLOs Observability Incident Response Debugging Customers

Honeycomb at Tapjoy: Faster Time to Confidence with Observability

Tapjoy's engineers get greater confidence and save days of effort when cutting over services for their attribution partners using Honeycomb…

Observability Migrations Customers

Intercom <3 Honeycomb

Intercom uses Honeycomb to drill into customer-facing issues in their Ruby and Go code with great precision and performance. By…

Observability Instrumentation Debugging Customers

Why We Built Our Own Distributed Column Store

Building Honeycomb, we needed a low-latency, distributed, schemaless database. NBD for Facebook, but we faced multi-tenancy, cost to serve, and…

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