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  • Ingesting JSON Logs From Containers With the OpenTelemetry Collector

    Nov 26, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Martin Thwaites |Rox Williams |Brian Chang |Tyler Helmuth

    It’s very popular to push logs, in a formatted way, to the console output of an application (sometimes referred to as stdout). Although using a push-based approach like OTLP over gRPC/HTTP is preferred and has more benefits, there are many legacy systems that still use this approach. These systems typically use a JSON output for their logs. So, how do we get these JSON logs into a backend analysis system like Honeycomb that primarily accepts OTLP data?

  • Driving Multi-Region Observability Excellence at Lansweeper

    Oct 29, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Brian Chang |Rox Williams

    Since its inception in 2004, Lansweeper has been at the forefront of helping businesses understand, manage, and protect their IT devices and networks through a powerful IT asset management platform. As the platform grew from an on-premises solution to a cloud-based SaaS offering, Lansweeper expanded its reach to a global, multi-region customer base.

  • A CoPE’s Duty: Indexing on Prod

    Sep 18, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Nick Travaglini |Brian Chang |Lex Neva

    Building a center of production excellence (CoPE) starts with indexing on production. Here’s why. 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.

  • An Ode to Events

    Sep 17, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Nick Travaglini |Brian Chang |Rox Williams

    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.

  • Is it Time to Version Observability? Signs Point to Yes

    Sep 9, 2024 | honeycomb.io | Nick Travaglini |Brian Chang |Rox Williams

    In 2016, we at Honeycomb first borrowed the term “observability” from the wikipedia entry for control systems observability, where it is a measure of your ability to understand internal system states just by observing its outputs. We then spent a couple of years trying to work out how that definition might apply to software systems. Many twitter threads, podcasts, blog posts, and lengthy laundry lists of technical criteria emerged from that work, including a whole ass book.

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