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Pastries with SREs: Limitless observability and uncompromised donuts

In this episode of Pastries with SREs, we dig into Limitless Observability with a sweet side of unified observability strategy. If you're tired of siloed tools, fractured data, and swivel-chair investigations, this one’s for you. We explore: Why are silos still the norm in modern observability? What’s the true cost of inefficiencies across logs, metrics, and traces? How can SREs, IT operations, and dev teams shift to a no-compromise, unified observability model?

Meet Canvas: Your AI-guided Workspace Within Honeycomb

Modern systems are wonderfully capable, but relentlessly complex. Debugging across microservices, frontends, and cloud edges often means switching between five or more tools, trying to stitch together “what changed” and “why it broke.” Honeycomb’s wide events model has proven to be a superpower for taming that complexity, by allowing you to easily observe and query end-to-end traces without worrying about how much granular data you attach to your events.

Full-Stack Observability with VictoriaMetrics in the OTel Demo

The OpenTelemetry Astronomy Shop is a widely used demonstration environment designed to illustrate the concepts and practical implementation of observability in distributed systems. Built as a microservice-based e-commerce application, the demo provides developers with a near real-world environment where they can explore how telemetry data—metrics, logs, and traces—can be collected, processed, and visualized.

Introducing Anomaly Detection: Your Early Warning System for Service Health

Modern engineering teams face a persistent challenge: knowing when something goes wrong before their customers do. With microservices architectures sprawling across dozens or hundreds of services, creating comprehensive alerting becomes an overwhelming task. You're left playing whack-a-mole with manual alert configurations, often missing critical issues or drowning in false positives.

Visually identify observability gaps with Cloudcraft in Datadog

Modern cloud environments are highly complex and dynamic, with critical services relying on large numbers of ephemeral resources. Ensuring observability coverage across this landscape is essential for troubleshooting, maintaining reliability, optimizing performance, and enforcing security standards. But as environments grow more elaborate and their ownership more dispersed, tracking observability coverage becomes increasingly challenging.

Visualize Logs Alongside Metrics: Complete Observability Elasticsearch Performance

Elasticsearch is a distributed search and analytics engine that powers everything from log management platforms to e-commerce search bars. It excels at indexing and retrieving large volumes of data quickly, but like any complex system it can slow down under heavy load or inefficient queries.

Introducing Honeycomb Intelligence Anomaly Detection

Modern teams face a persistent challenge: knowing when something goes wrong before their customers do. With architectures sprawling across dozens or hundreds of services, creating comprehensive alerting becomes an overwhelming task. You're left playing whack-a-mole with manual alert configurations, often missing critical issues or drowning in false positives. Today, we're excited to announce our solution to this challenge: Anomaly Detection (currently in alpha), Honeycomb's proactive approach to understanding and acting on service health.

Observability and Monitoring Governance (Part 1 of 4)

In contrast to the many flavors of governance used for IT, such as data governance, audit and compliance, and governance and security, IT monitoring governance lacks a definition in many organizations. This is true even as teams have decades of experience monitoring the health, performance, and availability of applications, infrastructures, networks, and user experience. Good monitoring governance “just sort of happens—naturally, organically.” Not exactly!

Introducing Honeycomb Intelligence MCP Server - Now GA!

In the months since we launched our public beta, we’ve been hard at work making Honeycomb MCP more useful and capable for agents and human operators alike. Our goal with this project has been, from the start, to allow AI to engage in the same kind of investigatory loops that we guide users towards. Many of the new features are designed expressly with this in mind, the most exciting of which is BubbleUp, now available in.