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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 builds, identify bottlenecks, and quickly debug flaky tests using the Honeycomb buildevents library.

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Create a GitHub Actions Workflow to Optimize Delivery Pipeline Performance With Honeycomb

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

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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 engineering teams build faster and more resilient services, our Enterprise tier specially enables practices that help teams foster a culture of production excellence at a larger scale.

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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 second of your environment.

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Metrics in Honeycomb

Debugging performance issues can be diﬃcult without a view of systems data along with your application data. Honeycomb Metrics enables you to explore and correlate metric time series data alongside your event data.

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Conditional Distributed Tracing: One Way to Adapt Tracing to Your Needs

Conditional distributed tracing is just one example of the future of distributed tracing. We’re still in the infancy of this technology, and you can have a very real hand in shaping that future. Will Sargent of eero in his talk at o11ycon.

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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 when your CWV scores are low, but it’s not always clear exactly why that’s happening.

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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 showing you what’s different about Honeycomb and how to find the solutions you need.

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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 how to ensure your SLOs are set up effectively.

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How to Hot-Swap Active Production Services

Download and read the guide to learn how to hot-swap active production services successfully and what pitfalls to avoid.

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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 and emerging distributed tracing practices to their advantage.

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How Intelligent Medical Objects Solved a Mysterious Spike in Latency With Observability

Michael Ericksen, Staff Site Reliability Engineer, explains how IMO implemented observability and established a culture of production excellence when a spike in latency hit their application.

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Distributed Tracing: A Guide for Microservices and More

Want to know what tracing is, what it's for, and how to get the power that it offers to debug and explore your code in production? Distributed Tracing – A Guide for Microservices and More is for you. The 3rd volume in the Honeycomb Observability e-Guide Series, this guide covers an introduction to the topic of tracing, its history, how to think about tracing, and how to add traces to your instrumentation.

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Four Lessons Red Hat Learned From Refactoring a Monolithic Service to Microservices

John Casey is a DevOps engineer and architect who leads the team at Red Hat that’s responsible for CI/CD and production support. In his talk at the 2021 ollycon+hnycon, John told the story of how he and his team learned a thing or three in their transition from a monolith to microservices.

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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 you debug any number of complex issues in the future. Instrumenting the right telemetry is critical for developers, SREs, and DevOps teams that own operation of their services in production. Honeycomb helps you ensure your team has the right telemetry when you need it the most.

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Achieving Observability

This guide discusses the history, concept, goals, and approaches to achieving observability in today’s software industry, with an eye to the future benefits and potential evolution of the software development practice as a whole.

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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 various capabilities for observability tooling and why they matter.

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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 answer questions that you didn't anticipate having to ask.

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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 longer human scale. When your only view of the system is through the instrumentation of your code, how it outputs what it tells you is as critical as what it outputs. Discover the best path from where you are today to a future of observability with this guide.

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Always Bee Tracing

At Honeycomb, we practice observability to know how our production systems are behaving in real-time. Distributed tracing is just one feature we use to solve issues fast and see what’s happening across all services. With tracing inside Honeycomb, we switch easily to different chart views – histograms, heat-maps and waterfall trace views.

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Observability For Developers

This guide provides the means to measure your current level of observability practice and how to get to the next level. It goes into detail about not just why, but how you can implement observability as an integral part of your development process and culture.

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o11ycon 2018: Discussion Findings

At the first-ever observability conference, attendees broke out into various groups to have open space-style discussions (OSSD) on various sub-themes in observability. This document summarizes those lightning talks presenting our OSSD Sessions - carving out what our industry means when we talk about observability.

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