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The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.

Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap

It has been seven years since Rent the Runway posted their engineering ladder, kicking off a veritable trend of engineering teams open sourcing their ladders. Interestingly, nearly all of them seem to have coalesced around “area of scope” as a useful proxy for level. At first glance, “area of scope” does seem to make sense. Senior engineers should be able to work across larger areas of the organization. In addition, your area of influence should expand as you gain experience.

Survey: Are You Using an Observability Solution, Implementing One, Actively Planning for it or Thinking About it?

Whether you’ve just started your observability journey or haven’t started one at all, Techstrong Research is here to help the industry gain insights into observability with their “Observability at the Speed of Innovation 2022” survey, sponsored by StackState. Techstrong Research, an industry analyst and consulting group focused on the business outcomes of disruptive technologies, is researching where organizations are in their observability journey.

Grafana for business intelligence: How Grafana Labs uses dashboards for more than observability data

Having joined Grafana Labs as one of our first data & analytics hires, I spent much of my time in the first few months considering how we should structure our data stack to optimize for a quick path to value, while allowing our small data team to scale going forward.

Lightrun Is Now Available For Web IDEs

We’re delighted to announce that Lightrun for Web IDEs is now available for our beta users! Lightrun for the Web is now supported in three different IDEs: If you want to check out the individual plugins, check out the respectable documentation articles: Lightrun’s users are now able to connect to their live applications directly from the browser, without having to download one of our dedicated plugins – and enjoy the full suite of Lightrun features right in the browser.

Cribl Search: Powering the Future of Observability

Cribl Search turns the traditional search process on its head, allowing users to search data in place. No longer must data be collected and moved to storage before being examined. With Cribl Search, administrators can search data at the edge, moving through an observability pipeline, stored in a data lake, or even stored in their existing solutions like TSDBs or log stores.

OpenMetrics vs OpenTelemetry - A guide on understanding these two specifications

OpenMetrics and OpenTelemetry are popular standards for instrumenting cloud-native applications. Both projects are part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and aim to simplify how we generate, collect and monitor services in a modern cloud-native distributed application environment. Let's have a look at how both the standards are aiming to help solve the observability conundrum.