Webinars Logs Debugging

Surface and Confirm Buggy Patterns in Your Logs Without Slow Search

Summary:


Debugging with logs in distributed systems can be a pain. It’s tough to search raw data looking for a pattern, relating potential causes with other logs, and checking trace and metrics data for more confirmation. Is finding one pattern enough? What if there are other problems? Who knows how many colliding factors are relevant? At Honeycomb, we’re flipping the script on the log search problem. Hear our resident experts, (former Splunk Ninja) Michael Wilde and Andy Dufour, discuss how Honeycomb customers have technically evolved their log analysis process to achieve fast pattern detection, skipping the search grep/search loop entirely. Learn how you can begin doing the same, no matter how mature your log instrumentation is today.

Topics include:

- How to technically prep your log structure for faster analysis
- Practical paths to send useful log data to Honeycomb
- What attributes to analyze in your log data at different levels of instrumentation
- Moving up the logging maturity curve with achievable steps, even if you’re at unstructured, unpatterned raw strings today
- How engineers at Vanguard and SumUp went through this process to transform the way they work

Learn how you can implement a fast and accurate debugging process that tracks complex application requests while taking full advantage of the rich context within your logs.

Guides

The Path from Unstructured Logs to Observability

If you’re trying to achieve observability starting with  unstructured logs, you’ve got some work ahead of you. Logs are no longer human scale. When your only view of the system is through the instrumentation of your  code, how it outputs what it tells you is as critical as what it outputs. Discover the best path from where you are today to a future of observability with this guide.

Product Videos

Honeycomb Logger for Cloudflare Demo

In this short video, we demonstrate the Cloudflare Worker Honeycomb Logger library to highlight how easy it is to get telemetry data into Honeycomb from the Worker platform and gain visibility into what is happening with your code at the edge.

Podcasts

Ep. #37, Synchronization Layers and Logs with Garry Shutler of Cronofy

In episode 37 of o11ycast, Charity and Shelby speak with Garry Shutler of Cronofy. Together they pull back the curtain on building scheduling tools, making observability tools accessible to teams, and keeping deploys boring.
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