I’ve said this before, but I’m saying it again: observability is not a synonym for monitoring, and there are no three pillars. The pillars are bullshit. Briefly: monitoring is how you manage your known-unknowns,...| Honeycomb
This quote from Charity Majors is probably the best summary of the current state of observability in the tech industry - a total, mass confusion.| isburmistrov.substack.com
Our Authors' Cut series takes a deep dive into our O’Reilly Observability Engineering book. Join us for this session on structured events.| Honeycomb
The search-first problem-solving approach—meaning “open up the log search tool” (Splunk, ELK, Loggly, SumoLogic, Scalyr, etc)—is a costly and time-consuming operation during which the true source of a problem is rarely pinpointed in short...| Honeycomb
I got an interesting tweet the other day from @evntdrvn in response to this thread of mine. Paraphrasing, “So I’ve almost got our group at work up to Step 1 in your observability maturi…| charity.wtf
Alex explains distributed column stores, how they work, why they're so fast, and why that's a fundamental requirement for observability.| Honeycomb
Canonical log lines are a lightweight, flexible, and technology-agnostic technique for observability that are powerful and easy to implement.| stripe.com
Last weekend, @swyx posted a great little primer to instrumentation titled “Observability Tools in JavaScript”. A friend sent me the link and suggested that I might want to respond and…| charity.wtf
A summary of the observability movement over the past three years.| The New Stack
In this post, Charity goes over metrics and logs, and how to get the most value out of your tooling as possible with rising vendor costs.| Honeycomb
Answer questions traditional monitoring and logging tools can't.| Honeycomb.io