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Observability   Logging   Instrumentation   Events  

How to Use NLog for Structured Logging

We’re grateful for this guest post from Tim Wilde! You can find the source code for the examples he uses in his github repo. Strings...

Observability   Events  

Event Foo: Moar Context Better Events

This guest post from Mark McBride of Turbine Labs is the fifth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. As a...

Observability   Events  

Event Foo: Designing for Results

This guest post from Matt Klein of Lyft is the fourth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. Event based tracing,...

Observability   Events  

Event Foo: Constructing a Coherent Narrative

This guest post from Colin Curtin of Good Eggs is the third in our series on the how, why, and what of events. On Event...

Monitoring   Instrumentation  

Instrumentation: system calls: an amazing interface for instrumentation

When you’re debugging, there are two basic ways you can poke at something. You can: create new instrumentation (like “adding print statements”) use existing instrumentation...

Monitoring   Instrumentation   Databases  

Instrumentation: Instrumenting HTTP Services

Welcome to the second week of our blog post series on instrumentation, curated by Julia and Charity. This week will focus more on operational and...

Monitoring   Instrumentation  

Instrumentation: Worst case performance matters

This is the fifth in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or...

Monitoring   Instrumentation  

Instrumentation: Measuring Capacity Through Utilization

This is the second in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out yesterday’s piece on the first four things you measure....

Monitoring   Instrumentation  

Instrumentation: The First Four Things You Measure

Note: this is the first in a series of guest posts about best practices and stories around instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts...

Connectors & Integrations  

Discovering and Exploring Web Latency Spikes

Last week, I got a signup invite for Honeycomb. My consulting business has a website management platform with modest but steady traffic, about 30k req/day....

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