The latest News and Information on Observabilty for complex systems and related technologies.
Ever wonder how your teammates go about debugging? When you use Honeycomb, you’re not only getting observability into your systems; it also provides observability into how your teammates use Honeycomb! Very meta, no? You’re never alone when writing or running Honeycomb queries. Opening up the right sidebar will show you the queries your teammates have recently run on the same dataset.
Our mission at Cribl is to unlock the value of all your observability and telemetry data, regardless of source or destination. We aim to give you choice and control over your data—because we know data has different value to different stakeholders at different times in the data lifecycle. Users are just scratching the surface in terms of the ways they are finding value from Cribl LogStream.
You know that observability plays a crucial role in helping to manage today’s distributed, cloud-native, microservices-based applications. But you may be surprised to learn that – despite its close association with modern applications – observability as a concept was born more than a half-century ago. Its origins stretch all the way back to the late 1950s, long before anyone was talking about microservices and the cloud.
Should we build and run the full observability stack in pre-prod? How much realism vs. waiting for prod? Answer: Yes. You absolutely want observability in pre-production environments—local, dev, performance test, staging, CI, everywhere.
The year is over, and the word ‘Observability’ has been one of the buzzwords that kept everyone checking throughout the year for deserving reasons. The organizations do not want to leave any stone unturned to maintain performance and offer robust services from ‘monitoring’ practices to ‘observability’, ‘telemetry’, and visibility capacities. So let’s get into the meaning of each term and understand how they are vital for business growth.
