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AIOps: Prove It! An Open Letter to Vendors Selling AI

SREs aren't known for being eager, optimistic early adopters of shiny new technologies. We're much more likely to subject you to lengthy monologuing about all of the ways said technologies are overhyped, under-delivered, and prone to spectacular, catastrophic systems failures.

AI & LLMsEngineering Best Practices

How We Used Serverless to Speed up Our Servers by

At Honeycomb, customers send us lots of data and then compose complex, ad-hoc queries. Most are simple, some are not.

AWSEngineering Best Practices

The OTTL Cookbook: A Collection of Solutions to Common Problems

Is your telemetry missing key attributes? Maybe there are details in your log bodies you’d rather have as attributes. It

OpenTelemetry

Simplifying OpenTelemetry with Configuration – Alex Boten, Honeycomb & Jack

OpenTelemetry file configuration is the community’s next generation config tool. Building on the original flattened environment variable based scheme, file

OpenTelemetry

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

InstrumentationObservability

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

InstrumentationObservabilityOpenTelemetryAPIsinstrumentationOpenTelemetrySDKstools

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

CustomersEngineering Best PracticesObservabilityOpenTelemetryOpenTelemetryRich AnakorService Level ObjectivesSLOVanguard

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

MetricsObservabilityOpenTelemetryAlolita SharmaAWSmetricsOpenTelemetryOTelOtel CollectorprometheusSDK

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

CI/CD PipelinesDistributed TracingObservabilityCICDFrank Chenhigh-dimensionalitySlackSlackTraceSpanEventstracing

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

CustomersMigrationsObservabilityFeaturedjava monolithJohn CaseyObservabilityrefactoring

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

CustomersDebuggingIncident ResponseObservabilityapplication performanceIMOIntelligent Medical ObjectsmedicalMichael EricksenObservabilitySLISLO

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

Engineering Best PracticesObservabilityCircleCIeventevent volumeGlen Mailer