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In 2024, simply having an observability practice is a given. In this era of observability, a high-functioning team will set leaders apart from their peers. Leading observability practitioners don’t fix issues by putting hundreds of people into a virtual room, or frantically messaging in a temporary Slack channel to find root causes. Because leaders embed observability into their development practices early, a feature launch is a quiet non-event.

Our new Cribl Search Packs give you a framework for packaging, sharing, and installing config bundles that align with a given data source or use case. Similar in concept to our original Cribl Stream Packs framework, Cribl Search Packs help users find value in their datasets more quickly across common use cases. In fact, Stream Pack users were a powerful driver in the development of Search Packs.

Let’s be real, we’ve never been huge fans of conventional unstructured logs at Honeycomb. From the very start, we’ve emitted from our own codestructured wide events and distributed traces with well-formed schemas. Fortunately (because it avoids reinventing the wheel) and unfortunately (because it doesn’t adhere to our standards for observability) for us, not all the software we run is written by us.

In a world where microservices rule and distributed architectures are the norm, understanding how a single request flows through your system can be an overwhelming challenge. But don’t worry—there’s light at the end of the tunnel! And not just one light, but four.