Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Well howdy there partner, Phillip here with a rootin’ tootin’ OTel update for ya, right on time for Kubecon EU!

In the race to attract and retain customers, businesses must deliver great customer experiences, release reliable products fast, and scrutinize costs to achieve consistent growth. That can either be a well-oiled machine or a tangle of disjointed communications and workflows that frustrate customers, employees, and management alike. By developing a culture of observability, you can have a framework that harmonizes the experience for everyone.

Contrary to Betteridge’s Law of Tabloid Headlines, the answer to the question, "does OpenTelemetry in.NET cause performance degradation?" is yes, but context is important. I get this question so often that I thought it was time to get some stats on it. I’ve heard comments like: I can only assume that these are based on previous versions, or things like OpenTracing / OpenCensus (the heritage frameworks that were the feeders for OpenTelemetry).

Depending on your business, MTTR stands for mean time to repair or mean time to recovery – but it can also mean resolution, resolve, or restore. No matter how you define it, the basic measurement is the same: it’s the time it takes from when something goes down to when it is back and fully functional. This includes everything from finding the problem to fixing it. For ITOps teams, keeping MTTR to an absolute minimum is crucial.

The explosive growth of interconnected data across distributed systems has disrupted traditional development, DevOps, and ITOps practices and forced many organizations to rethink their cloud strategies. Higher-velocity feature development and more responsive support requests involve developers throughout the delivery cycle and require them to monitor and observe application behavior before releasing it to production.

Spring has sprung, and the bees have been busy. Let’s have a look at what’s new in Honeycomb at the close of March.

In 2021, we started Request Metrics as a simple and developer-friendly service to measure and improve web performance. We built an incredible platform that distilled complex data down into simple reports and recommendations. Lots of teams around the world found valuable insights in Request Metrics that they couldn’t get anywhere else. But web performance data can be very unpredictable—the web slows down in all sorts of ways.

If you’re involved in IT Operations, you’ve probably heard of OpenTelemetry. It’s a hot topic in the observability industry, and for good reason. OpenTelemetry is a set of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy to collect telemetry data from your applications and infrastructure. This data can then be used to monitor your systems, troubleshoot problems, and improve performance.

As companies navigate geopolitical challenges, macroeconomic headwinds, and the post-pandemic comedown, business leaders face intense pressure to drive software transformation, reduce costs, and compete faster in the cloud-transition era of “lift and shift.” Amid layoffs and a slowed pace of hiring, the demand for better tools, real-time insights, seamless experiences, and contextual analysis has skyrocketed.

As a company born in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud, we understand that operating at cloud scale requires balancing security, compliance, and operational safety with your commitment to innovation, speed, and agility. From cost optimization at scale to operational resiliency to application modernization, we know you’re facing various challenges and need reliable solutions.