Rox Williams
Senior Content Marketing Manager
The First of Her Name, Mother of Pugs, Breaker of Leashes, Khaleesi of the Goth Office, Rox is the Senior Content Marketing Manager at Honeycomb. She comes to us with a background in DevOps writing. In her spare time, you can find her at a vegan restaurant with her partner, or adopting too many senior pugs.
2024 Wrapped: 6 Key Observability Trends
Another one in the history books: 2024 is (almost!) over. The OpenObservability Talks podcast, hosted by Dotan Horovits, recently featured a lively discussion with Charity...
Beyond Monitoring: A Guide to Cloud Observability
With more and often smaller processes, cloud-native architectures have driven the need for better insights into our software—a way to look into how these processes...
Tracing the Line: Understanding Logs vs. Traces
In the software space, we spend a lot of time defining the terminology that describes our roles, implementations, and ways of working. These terms help...
An Engineer’s Checklist of Logging Best Practices
The best DevOps and SRE teams have shifted their approach to monitoring and logging their systems. These teams debug problems cohesively and rationally, regardless of...
Getting Started With Log Management
Whether you’re using logs to debug issues, keeping an eye on system performance, or protecting your infrastructure, good log management hygiene can make a huge...
What Is Full-Stack Observability?
Simply put, full-stack observability is monitoring designed for modern, cloud-native architectures. It allows you to understand how your software system interacts at scale, across everything...
Confidently Shifting from Logs-Centric to a Unified Trace-First Approach: Ritchie Bros. Journey to Modern Observability
Transitioning from a monolithic system to a cloud-native microservices environment, Ritchie Bros. sought to modernize their observability infrastructure to support the transition and fuel future...
Modern Observability in Action at the University of Oxford
The Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science at the University of Oxford is pioneering the better use of data, evidence, and digital tools in healthcare,...
Unlocking Smiles: HappyCo's Observability Success
With a diverse range of applications, HappyCo sought to advance their system investigations with a modern observability solution while embarking on an application refactor project....
Navigating Software Engineering Complexity With Observability
In the not-too-distant past, building software was relatively straightforward. The simplicity of LAMP stacks, Rails, and other well-defined web frameworks provided a stable foundation. Issues...
Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs
Amperity required an observability partner to facilitate their transition into the modern engineering era as their previous tooling struggled to support their growth strategy....
Observability, Telemetry, and Monitoring: Learn About the Differences
Over the past five years, software and systems have become increasingly complex and challenging for teams to understand. A challenging macroeconomic environment, the rise of...
Rocking the Logs: Fender's Journey to Modern Observability
Fender faced challenges with log analysis, finding it slow and complex to navigate, leading to inefficient troubleshooting and a need for a more user-friendly and...
Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution
Relying on their traditional observability 1.0 tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an...
A Day in the Life: Customer Success
We thought it'd be fun to give you some insights into what certain teams at Honeycomb do and how they spend their days, and who...