Slicing Up—and Iterating on—SLOs
One of the main pieces of advice about Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is that they should focus on the user experience. Invariably, this leads to...
A CoPE’s Duty: Indexing on Prod
Building a center of production excellence (CoPE) starts with indexing on production. Here’s why. Odds are that a software engineer today is really focused on...
An Ode to Events
At this point, it’s almost passé to write a blog post comparing events to the three pillars. Nobody really wants to give up their position....
Is OpenTelemetry Open for Business? September 2024 Update
One of the things about OpenTelemetry that’s easy to miss if you’re not spending the whole day in the ins and outs of the project...
It's Time to Version Observability: Introducing Observability 2.0
In 2016, we at Honeycomb first borrowed the term “observability” from the wikipedia entry for control systems observability, where it is a measure of your...
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...
The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0 in Shaping the Future
Engineering has come a long way since the days of delivering discrete, point-in-time products that were often packaged on a CD and shipped to customers....
Getting Started With Refinery: Rules File Template
Sampling is a necessity for applications at scale. We at Honeycomb sample our data through the use of our Refinery tool, and we recommend that...
Always. Enable. Keepalives.
As part of our recent failure testing project, we ran into an interesting failure mode involving the OpenTelemetry SDK for Go. In this post, we’ll...
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...
Aligning Business and Engineering Goals with Honeycomb SLOs
Setting clear, measurable goals is essential for any successful team. However, aligning those goals with the technical work can be challenging in the fast-paced world...
A CoPE’s Guide to Alert Management
Alerts are a perennial topic, and a CoPE will need to engage with them. The bounds of this problem space are formed by two types...
The CoPE and Other Teams, Part 2: Custom Instrumentation and Telemetry Pipelines
The previous post laid out the basic idea of instrumentation and how OpenTelemetry’s auto-instrumentation can get teams started. However, you can’t rely only on auto-instrumentation....