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Martin Thwaites
Let’s dig into what we mean by an Availability Check and how that maps to observability, tracing, and supporting production systems.
Guest Blogger
You use NGINX as a proxy for your application, and you want to leverage Honeycomb’s amazing features to help make sense of the traffic data. Have no fear: Honeycomb has a solution just for you.
Liz Fong-Jones
Just like any aspect of development, poor integration, invisible bottlenecks, and bugs can plague your CI/CD pipelines. And debugging them? Well, it’s complicated. To see what I mean, just fire up your favorite search engine to find content on “debugging CI/CD pipelines.” Look at all the different tools, studios, and blogs full of advice—it’s soul crushing.
Sasha Sharma
Someone once described dashboards to me as “expensive TV for software engineers.” At first, I stood there quietly shocked—dashboards had informed many root cause analyses (RCAs) in my life as a developer. Dashboards can be expensive TV—and sometimes even harmful false cocoons of safety (“Uh, p90 looks okay 🤷♀️!”) —but, approached instead with an analytical lens, they should be a pulse check for overall system health and a jumping-off point for investigations.
Observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production. Moving from logs to tracing and showing causality can be done locally, as well. We can give developers the same superpowers that SREs have: observability-driven development.
Charity Majors
People use “observability team” as a catchall basket for all kinds of things these days—from cutting-edge tech to truly heinous hacks. Eh, it is what it is. The industry may be in a roiling state of massive flux, but I’m cautiously excited about the changes beginning to take shape and emerge from the muck. And I definitely think it’s worth spending some time talking about what observability teams can and should be.
One of the reasons that OpenTelemetry is great at doing this is that a lot of the common attributes you may find on a span are given standard names, so the systems receiving the data to visualize them don’t need to know the specifics of your system. This is really a superpower of OpenTelemetry, as it gives a level playing field for consumers of that information—meaning that you, as a developer, can forget about vendor-specific things.
David Marchante
By giving an overview into datasets, traces, and spans, you’ll get a peek behind the curtain into how Honeycomb facilitates observability in the hopes of arriving at a place where identifying the source of errors, finding performance problems, or understanding how data flows through a large system is made easier.
Rynn Mancuso
Here’s what some of our customers had to say about Honeycomb features that they found value in right away.
Phillip Carter
Two of our folks went to Monitorama 2022, and they gleaned a few pearls of wisdom they’d love to share with you, including an unexpected, but surprisingly insightful talk on carbon impact reporting. Read more now.
In this webinar based on our O’Reilly book, we go over the difference between observability and monitoring – and when to use which.
Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)
“It’s expensive. It’s difficult. Our APM works just fine.” The three myths of observability can lead to being on call with under-instrumented tools. That’s exactly what happened to Paige Bernier, retired SRE. Let’s learn about her experience and see how we can avoid being in the same situation.
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Debugging application performance in Azure AppService is something that’s quite difficult using Azure’s built-in services (like Application Insights). Among some of the issues are visualizations, and the time it takes to be able to query data. In this post, we’ll walk through the steps to ingest HTTP Access Logs from Azure AppService into Honeycomb to provide for near real-time analysis Access Logs.
The software industry is moving toward teams that own the services they build. This concept encloses principles and possibilities from movements toward microservices, DevOps, Agile, and Project to Product. In these paradigms, a team of people delivers software that provides valued capabilities. These capabilities help customers get their work done, support business operations, or enable other software to do these.
Our Author’s Cut series takes a deep dive into our O’Reilly Observability Engineering book. Join us for this session on structured events.
I’m Phillip, a product manager here at Honeycomb. After eleven-ish months of working on our product, I totally understand observability, right? …Kinda? Sorta? Maybe? I’m not sure—but, I have been sitting in this space…
The book is done. The book is FINISHED. There will be no more writing of the book! Holy macaroni. If you think you might be sensing just a SMIDGE of relief, you wouldn’t be…
Josh Levin
Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development—is no different. Leaning into observability, which calls for tool-enhanced…
Pete Hodgson
It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. Why is that? Shouldn’t we have gotten better at this in the past two decades? There are valid reasons…
Two years ago, I wrote a long retrospective of observability for its third anniversary. It includes a history of instrumentation and telemetry, a detailed explanation of the technical spec, and why the whole “three pillars” thing…
