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 teams using Honeycomb, with a different mentality to the way they run and manage production. One example is a team using SLOs for a critical service. A burn alert came through, and they were able to remediate this issue before it became customer-impacting.