The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.
For several decades, IT monitoring has been deployed in different forms. The focus of IT monitoring has been to gather metrics about the operations of an IT infrastructure’s hardware and software assets to ensure that all the key functions are being performed as expected to support applications and IT services. In the recent past, the term Observability has been used as a synonym for “modern monitoring”.
Written by Liz Fong-Jones and Phillip Carter. OpenTelemetry, also known as OTel, is a CNCF open standard that enables distributed tracing and metrics collection from your applications. At Honeycomb, we believe that OpenTelemetry is the best way to ingest the high-cardinality and high-dimensional data that every system, no matter how complex or distributed, needs for observability.
If you’re finding it a little difficult to sift through all the varying, often conflicting information surrounding the topic of network observability, you’re certainly not alone.
Today, we're announcing the launch of Honeycomb Service Map. This isn't your grandparent's version of a service map. This feature reimagines what it is that you want to know or investigate when looking at visualizations of how your services communicate with one another.
Among the 12 greatest stressors in life, six revolve around healthcare issues. From loss of a loved one to pregnancy and even retirement, these events often involve interactions with healthcare services — interactions that can either add to an individual’s stress or, ideally, help alleviate it.
