Webinars OpenTelemetry Observability Engineering Best Practices

Options for Managing Telemetry Volume At Scale & How Slack Does It


Summary:



Welcome to The Authors’ Cut Series
In this session, you’ll learn the pros and cons of different sampling techniques and how to still retain granular visibility into your system state. We discuss why sampled events are better than the traditional method of pre-aggregated metrics, brought to life through a demo of Refinery, Honeycomb’s sampling solution.

Specific concepts include:
- Cheap and Accurate Enough: Sampling. Code-based examples of various sampling techniques and how you can make informed decisions about which events can help you surface unusual system behavior. (Chapter 17)
- Slack example: Telemetry Management with Pipelines. Slack routes millions of events per second to multiple backend systems. See how they’ve developed a strong telemetry management practice that makes services sufficiently observable while minimizing the burden on developers. (Chapter 18)
- A Live Honeycomb Demo. Slack engineering leaders, Suman Karumuri and Ryan Katkov, will showcase their use of telemetry pipelines to route data to many backend systems in order to isolate workloads, meet security and compliance needs, satisfy different retention requirements, and more.

About This Series
Welcome to The Authors’ Cut series. In writing the O’Reilly Observability Engineering book, our goal is to help you achieve production excellence, based on our experiences building and operating commercial SaaS products at scale, and as creators of observability tooling for high-performance engineering teams. These are interactive sessions led by authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, and George Miranda where you’ll discuss concepts in the book, see how to apply them in Honeycomb, and get advice on strategy and implementation in your world.

Guides

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.

Podcasts

Ep. #45, Choosing OpenTelemetry with Chris Holmes of Simply Business

In episode 45 of o11ycast, Charity and Liz are joined by Chris Holmes of Simply Business. Together they unpack OpenTelemetry, the importance of tracing, and the observability adoption process at Simply Business.

Conference Talks

Honeycomb & OpenTelemetry: Instrumentation Should Be Boring

OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs that can be used to instrument, generate, collect and export telemetry data for analysis in order to understand your software’s performance and behavior. Paul gives an overview of how Honeycomb has embraced OpenTelemetry as a key part of our instrumentation strategy, how this can help make instrumenting your code easier, and what you can expect from Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry in the near future.
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