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
Canonical log lines are a simple technique you can implement today to improve your logging| Baselime
Our Authors' Cut series takes a deep dive into our O’Reilly Observability Engineering book. Join us for this session on structured events.| Honeycomb
Observability is often described as three pillars—logs, metrics, and traces. Many companies have been built around this idea, but others have risen to challenge it. Let’s see what observability companies are up to in 2024.| Posts on Matthew Sanabria
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