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Using observability to ship faster with confidence ft. Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb

Sep 20, 2024 By CircleCI In CircleCI
In this episode of The Confident Commit, Rob sits down with Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb, to delve into the evolving role of observability in modern software development. They discuss how observability goes beyond traditional metrics and monitoring, and allows developers to be better prepared for the unknown and embrace the complexities of distributed systems. Christine shares insights on how observability not only boosts developer confidence but also enhances productivity by reducing toil and enabling teams to focus on delivering value for customers.
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How OpenTelemetry is Transforming Observability

Sep 18, 2024 By Paul S In ObservIQ
The OpenTelemetry project is changing how organizations approach observability. It aims to standardize monitoring across different systems. OpenTelemetry—commonly referred to as OTel—provides APIs, SDKs, exporters, and collectors. It is making data collection, analysis, and utilization more efficient, leading to better decision-making and technology adoption.
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A CoPE's Duty: Indexing on Prod

Sep 18, 2024 By Nick Travaglini In Honeycomb
Odds are that a software engineer today is really focused on one place: pre-prod. Short for “pre-production,” this is slang for an environment where software code operates in a prototype phase of its development lifecycle. Common sense would have one believe that this is a safe space, a workbench of sorts, where problems can be found and remediated.
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Splunk vs Dynatrace - Detailed Comparison [2024]

Sep 18, 2024 By Uptrace In Uptrace
Splunk and Dynatrace are two powerful platforms in the realm of observability and performance monitoring. Each offers unique strengths that cater to different monitoring needs. In this article, we'll explore the features, pros, and cons of both tools, and introduce an exciting alternative that combines the best of both worlds.
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The Layers, Not Pillars, of Observability

Sep 17, 2024 By Josh Biggley In Cribl
Remember the Tabs vs. Spaces arguments? It seems that observability has grown up enough that we are arguing over which signals are the “best” signals for observability. Often referred to as the Pillars of Observability, Metrics, Logs, and Traces (sometimes adding Events for MELT) each provide a unique perspective on a system. What happens when we change our perspective from finding the “best” telemetry format to finding the telemetry that aligns with the problems we need to solve?
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An Ode to Events

Sep 17, 2024 By Nick Travaglini In Honeycomb
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. Regardless, I’m going to talk about how great events are and use some analogies to try to get that across. Maybe these will help folks learn to really appreciate them and to depreciate a certain understanding of the three pillars. Or maybe not.
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uptrace

Top 11 Grafana Alternatives [comparison 2024]

Sep 17, 2024 By Uptrace In Uptrace
Grafana is a widely used open-source platform for monitoring and visualization. Grafana has a lot of built-in functionality and also provides a large amount of community templates that can improve your overall experience. However, Grafana requires quite a lot of configuration and the documentation can be a bit overwhelming for beginners. In this article, we explore seven alternatives that can be simpler to use and can provide seamless integration of traces, logs, and metrics.
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Top 10 API Monitoring Tools in 2024 [Including Open Source]

Sep 17, 2024 By Uptrace In Uptrace
API monitoring has become increasingly important due to the growth of microservices, cloud-native architectures, and distributed systems. APIs play a crucial role in facilitating communication between systems, and even small API failures can cause significant disruptions in service delivery. This article delves into the best API monitoring tools available in 2024, encompassing both proprietary and open-source options, to assist you in selecting the most suitable solution for your business requirements.
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Introducing The eBPF Agent: A New, No-Code Approach for Cloud-Native Observability

Sep 16, 2024 By Ravina Khanna In Broadcom
Microservices architecture has become a dominant approach for building scalable, resilient, and flexible applications. However, monitoring these microservices presents unique challenges due to their distributed nature, fixed or limited resources, enterprise scale, and the dynamic nature of environments, such as Kubernetes clusters. The result is that in-process application agents often introduce significant overhead because they rely on intrusive instrumentation and frequent polling.
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Broadcom's Vision for Network Observability

Sep 16, 2024 By Sean Armstrong In Broadcom
The performance monitoring industry has been using the word “observability” to a lot of different ends lately. While the trend towards more visibility into services is a good one, it’s also based on a need we see from customers on a day-to-day basis. The need to take back control of network visibility is strong in the face of complexity that has been rapidly increasing for years.
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