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Learn How NS1 Uses Distributed Tracing to Release Code More Quickly and Reliably

Chris Bertinato, Software Architect at NS1, and Nate Daly, Head of Architecture at NS1 along with Jessica Kerr, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, and Account Executive Scott Phillips discuss how NS1 used distributed tracing to scale their organization and accelerate their migration from a monolith to microservices.

How Much Should Your Observability Stack Cost?

Observability is critical to any software development. It is a term that describes the ability to monitor the performance and health of applications, services, and infrastructure. Observability aims to quickly identify and troubleshoot problems before they become full-blown incidents that can lead to costly downtime. But how much should you invest in an observability stack? Regarding the cost of your observability stack, there is no one-size-fits-all answer.

Reference Architecture Series: Scaling Syslog

Join Ed Bailey and Ahmed Kira as they go into more detail about the Cribl Stream Reference Architecture, with a focus on scaling syslog. In this live stream discussion, Ed and Ahmed will explain guidelines for how to handle high volume UDP and TCP syslog traffic. They will also share different use cases and talk about the pros and cons for using different approaches to solve this common and often painful challenge.

See How Coveo Engineers Reduced User Latency

Many teams are wasting far too much time and energy searching through massive amounts of log data trying to find answers to user latency issues. Metrics data doesn’t help either as it only tells you that there is a problem, not where to fix it. This is why Coveo turned to observability. Through implementing observability with Honeycomb, Coveo was able to reduce their user latency by 50 percent.

Join Jeli and Honeycomb for an Incident Response and Analysis Discussion

Solutions Engineers Vanessa Huerta Granda and Emily Ruppe from Jeli, along with Honeycomb’s Field CTO Liz Fong-Jones and SRE Fred Hebert discuss some of our more interesting recent incidents and how we use Honeycomb and Jeli together for incident response.

Learn How SumUp Implemented SLOs to Mitigate User Outages and Reduce Customer Churn

Blake Irvin and Matouš Dzivjak from SumUp’s Software Engineering team, Honeycomb Solution Architect Michael Sickles and Account Executive Nathan Leary, discuss how SumUp incorporated observability, specifically, SLOs, to identify and resolve issues before they grew into customer-noticeable problems.

Surface and Confirm Buggy Patterns in Your Logs Without Slow Search

Debugging with logs in distributed systems can be a pain. It’s tough to search raw data looking for a pattern, relating potential causes with other logs, and checking trace and metrics data for more confirmation. Is finding one pattern enough? What if there are other problems? Who knows how many colliding factors are relevant? At Honeycomb, we’re flipping the script on the log search problem. Hear our resident experts, (former Splunk Ninja) Michael Wilde and Andy Dufour, discuss how Honeycomb customers have technically evolved their log analysis process to achieve fast pattern detection, skipping the search grep/search loop entirely.

The future of observability: Trends and predictions business leaders should plan for in 2023 and beyond

If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that the more things change, the more things stay the same. The whiplash and pivot from the go-go economy post-pandemic to a belt-tightening macroeconomic environment induced by higher inflation and interest rates has been seen before, but rarely this quickly. Technology leaders have always had to do more with less, but this slowdown may be unpredictable, longer, and more pronounced than expected.