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Buyer’s (and Evaluator’s) Guide to Observability

Evaluating observability tools can be a daunting task when you’re unfamiliar with key considerations and possibilities. This guide steps through

ObservabilityAPMdistributed servicesGartnerloggingmonitoringObservabilitySLOtracestracing

Ep. #24, Beyond Code with Heidi Waterhouse of LaunchDarkly

In episode 24 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Heidi Waterhouse of LaunchDarkly. They discuss feature flags, value stream

Engineering Best Practicesculturedevelopmentfeature flagsHeidi WaterhouseLaunchDarklystream mapping

Bees Working Together: How ecobee’s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb

For ecobee squads, using Prometheus and Grafana for system and application monitoring helped identify broad aggregate performance issues like spikes

APMAWSCustomersObservabilityaggregateDevOpsecobeegrafanalatencymonitoringperformanceprometheus

Derived Columns

Learn how to use Honeycomb Derived Columns to create "virtual fields" that are calculations based on the value of other

ObservabilityColumnsError rateheatmapHigh cardinalityinstrumentationQueriesquery

Using Honeycomb Boards

Learn how to use the Honeycomb Boards feature to create jumping-off points for exploration in Honeycomb.

ObservabilityBoardsDashboardopen sourceQueriesqueryQuery graphsTeam Collaboration

Ask an SRE Panel

Follow along as SRE leaders from Slack, Fastly, Catchpoint, and Autodesk discuss defining SRE, avoiding pitfalls, managing incident anxiety, informing

Engineering Best PracticesAPMDevOpsincident responsemanagementmonitoringObservabilityoncallreliabilityresiliencySite Reliability EngineerSRE

Ep. #23, Beyond Ops with Erwin van der Koogh of Linc

In episode 23 of O11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Erwin van der Koogh of Linc. They discuss the startup

Engineering Best PracticesecosystemErwin van der Kooghreleaserelease engineeringsafetystartup

Ep. #22, Designing for Observability with Jimmy Bogard of Headspring

In episode 22 of O11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Jimmy Bogard of Headspring. They discuss maintaining balance for on-call

Engineering Best PracticesIncident ResponseMigrationsJimmy Bogardmicroservicesmigrationmonolithsoncallsoftware engineer

Observability Sheds Light on Dark’s Business Growth and Customer Scaling

Dark’s engineering team relied on logs to understand how users interacted with their platform. But a desire for both deeper

CustomersLogsObservabilityDarkdebugdebuggingdistributed systemslatencylogsobservability driven developmentStackdriverunderstanding

Ep. #21, Learning Systems with Jessica Kerr

In episode 21 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Jessica Kerr. Together, they explore complex learning systems, how to

Engineering Best PracticesDevOpsfeedback loopJessica Kerrlearning systemsoncalloutages

OpenTelemetry Collector

The OpenTelemetry Collector can be used to consolidate and process data from multiple different services. This video explains the OpenTelemetry

ObservabilityOpenTelemetrybeelineJaegerOpenCensusopensourceOpenTelemetryOpenTracingOTeltracestracingZipkin

Ep. #20, Between Dev and Ops with Marco Rogers of Mode

In episode 20 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Marco Rogers of Mode. They discuss the wall between dev

Engineering Best Practicesapplication analysisapplication performancedebuggingDevOpsMarco RogersMode