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From Phishing to SQL Injection: How Breaches Actually Happen

Critical vulnerabilities are critical because they're easy to exploit — but most breaches don't even need them. Tony explains why phishing remains the dominant attack vector, why strong instrumentation matters for forensics (tracing an API call through a database to see exactly what was leaked), and how observability data becomes security data when something goes wrong. The system is harder to breach than the human. And that's the whole game.

One Collector, Two Teams: How Bindplane Bridges Security and Observability with OpenTelemetry

Observability engineers will spend weeks tuning instrumentation. Security engineers? They want a collector installed and logs flowing — yesterday. And that's actually the magic of OpenTelemetry + Bindplane: from day one you're routing firewall logs, endpoint data, server logs straight into your SIEM with zero instrumentation lift. One toolchain. Two teams. No silos. Filmed at Google Cloud Next '26 — Las Vegas bindplane.com#OpenTelemetry.

Getting started with Checkly dashboards

Checkly is a modern reliability platform that combines testing, monitoring and observability in one place. Its integration with Playwright and languages such as TypeScript means that developers can write tests using tools they are familiar with and then run them in Checkly. Its Monitoring as Code philosophy also means that Checkly tests can be incorporated into CI/CD pipelines.

Honeycomb Achieves the AWS Financial Services Competency

Honeycomb is proud to share that we have achieved the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Financial Services Competency. This recognition validates our technical expertise and proven customer success in assisting financial services organizations with building, running, and understanding their production systems on AWS. Securing this competency is a direct response to our customers’ feedback in this space: observability in regulated, high-stakes environments requires more than dashboards and alerts.

3 things you need to know about headless observability

If you're building agents trying to figure out the best way to actually make them successful in production, you're going to want to know about headless observability. Headless observability means an agent can access information about the health of your system through a CLI instead of clicking around dashboards. It's the data layer that going to unlock serious autonomy and allow you to scale with agentic workloads.

Honeycomb Innovation Week: Announcing Our Partnership With Embrace

Honeycomb and Embrace are extending the rigorous, data-driven practice that Honeycomb pioneered for foundational to mobile and web, giving, site reliability, and platform teams a complete, correlated picture of system health. The strategic partnership makes understanding performance and reliability for every user and every screen part of the observability practice, bringing new depth and standardization to how teams measure end user impact.

New ways to agentically build and edit dashboards

The traditional dashboard workflow, teams slowly handcrafting visualizations to track critical KPIs, is dying in a world of AI agents. A few years ago, in a pre-agentic-everything world, we tried to make it easier for developers to monitor critical experiences. We introduced Insights pages, which were pre-configured dashboards any Sentry user could adopt instantly that surfaced common health signals, like Web and Mobile Vitals.