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We can’t wait to see you at AWS re:Invent! On December 4th at 8:00 pm PT, we’re looking forward to co-hosting a night of 1920s glamour and mystery at the exclusive 1923 Prohibition Bar with our friends from Buildkite, observIQ, Oso, and Pulumi. Reserve your spot today: https://lnkd.in/gGEcnmUU

We teamed up with DZone to survey software developers, architects, and other IT professionals to get a view of the current state of observability and performance. Download the report to find out what we learned! https://lnkd.in/gMKZxy2y

🎄 'Tis the season for holiday sweaters and OpenTelemetry! 🔭 Join us for the Holiday Sweaters & OTel Insights: 2025 unwrapped webinar! 2024 has been a HUGE year for OTel and we’re bringing together an all-star group of experts to break it all down. From backend to frontend to mobile, we’ll explore what’s new, what’s exciting, and what’s coming in 2025. 📍Register here: https://ow.ly/IORY50UbmE7 🗓️ Date: Tuesday, Dec 10 at 1:00p EST / 10:00a PST  ⭐ Panelists:  Hanson Ho, Android Architect at Embrace Charity Majors, Cofounder/CTO, honeycomb.io Hazel Weakly, Fellow at the Nivenly Foundation Daniel Gomez Blanco, Principal Engineer at Skyscanner Adriana Villela, Principal Developer Advocate at Dynatrace Whether you're a DevOps pro, SRE, or mobile engineer, this is your chance to level up your OpenTelemetry knowledge while rocking your best (or ugliest!) holiday sweater. Can't wait to see you! 📍 Save your seat ➔ https://ow.ly/IORY50UbmE7 OpenTelemetry Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) #Webinar #OpenTelemetry #OTel #MobileObservability #DevOps #SRE #Observability #ModernObservability

I'm so proud of having this article published (link in the comments). This is not you're typical PR stunt, this is a true story. A story about observability. But it's also a story about cost-cutting and tech modernization and culture change. 'How can that all be related?', you may ask. There is a line of thought suggesting that the greatest challenge technical leaders face today is not purely technical but sociotechnical in nature and I couldn't agree more. I mean, just look at the list of capabilities published by DORA on their website as enablers for high-performing teams. A good portion of those capabilities are directly related to culture and some of the others at least indirectly related. Thinking that one can bring such a complex thing as observability by just mandating is naive to say the least. By sharing a little bit of the story on how OneFootball managed to make the transition from traditional APM / logs, metrics and traces to proper observability, we hope to give people some insights on how to go about it themselves. None of this would be possible without the brilliant work done by Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, Christine Yen, George Miranda, Jessica Kerr and so many others, not just by bringing honeycomb.io to the world but by advocating so hard for this new way of thinking about software operations (and software development, actually). Your contributions to the tech community go much further than Honeycomb as a company and I'll be forever grateful for that. 🙇 Going back to the article, we explore some of the challenges we were facing at the time and how we leveraged observability to drive other technical practices, such as continuous integration and testing in production, as these practices naturally complement one another. Lastly, a huge shoutout to Bruno Henrique (Garu) for embracing the vision and leading this initiative with such dedication. If you’re considering this or any other transformation for your team, here’s one piece of advice: focus on solving a real problem. Meaningful sociotechnical transformation doesn’t happen just because you mandate it, regardless of your big fancy title. In our case, our teams were struggling to debug production issues. The terabytes of logs sent to the APM were essentially useless. Engineers were spending days, sometimes weeks, trying to pinpoint the root cause of problems, wasting valuable engineering capacity and money. That was the problem we set out to solve, and it’s the reason this transition was so successful. As Bruno highlights in the article, our engineers quickly recognized the value of the new approach. The transition didn’t require any coordinated program management effort; it was entirely organic. As a result, we were able to fully decommission both our APM and logging infrastructure in much less time than we initially anticipated. (you can find the link to the article and some other related resources in the comments)

Your logs are more than just a safety net—they're a treasure trove of insights waiting to be unlocked. With Honeycomb, you can consolidate all telemetry data—including logs, metrics, and traces—into one unified platform for a fast, collaborative, and cost-effective experience. In our webinar on December 12, we’ll show you how Honeycomb for Log Analytics and Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline bring a fresh approach to log management. Register today! https://lnkd.in/gnhB9jYh

We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately, but what does it mean? The difference between observability 1.0 and observability 2.0 is actually quite simple— Charity Majors breaks it down in her latest blog: https://lnkd.in/gu5GqSgx

Attending AWS re:Invent? Stop by our booth (# 457) and ask a Honeycomb team member for a demo, and you can receive a Personalized LED Name Badge! Learn more: https://lnkd.in/gwHNvFnP

For football fans, staying connected to their favorite teams, players, and matches is a passion—and OneFootball delivers exactly that. To meet their engineering team goals and provide a seamless experience, they needed the right observability tool—that's where we came in. https://lnkd.in/gFdYFsgG

We know how important it is for organizations to have a unified observability platform. That's why we launched Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline and Honeycomb for Log Analytics: to enable engineering teams to send and analyze data—including logs—into a single, unified platform. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eSwsCXBm

honeycomb.io is not only an excellent addition to our observability toolkit, but it’s also a fantastic company to partner with. A big thank you to Brian J. Chang and the wonderful team at Honeycomb for this collaborative article!