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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

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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

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Derived Columns

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

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Using Honeycomb Boards

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

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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

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OpenTelemetry Collector

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

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Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Collector Demo

In this video, we demonstrate the OpenTelemetry Collector and its new Honeycomb exporter functionality using Hipster Shop (a microservices demo

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The Socio-Technical Path to High Performing Teams – With Animation

We are far behind where we should be as a profession when it comes to how much of our effort

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Ep #19, Giving Observability a Name with Shelby Spees of Honeycomb

In episode 19 of O11ycast, Liz and Charity speak with Shelby Spees of Honeycomb. They discuss Shelby’s diverse engineering background,

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Tradeoffs on the Road to Observability – With Animation

The main way to improve sustainability of services is to empower engineers, not just SREs, to understand their systems. Liz

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Ep. #18, Real User Monitoring with Michael Hood of Optimizely

In episode 18 of O11ycast, Charity and Liz speak with Michael Hood, a senior staff performance engineer at Optimizely. They

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Observability Maturity Community Research Findings

Adopting observability tools, site reliability engineering (SRE) practices, and a culture of shared ownership translates to efficiencies across the software

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