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Logs are essential for understanding what’s going on inside your application. However raw JSON logs can be hard to read. pino-pretty is a tool that formats Pino logs into a more readable, color-coded format, making it easier to debug and understand what’s happening in your app.

When it comes to monitoring and managing applications and infrastructure on AWS, CloudWatch Metrics is your best friend. CloudWatch helps you track key metrics in real time, providing the data you need to maintain system performance, troubleshoot issues, and gain deeper insights into your environment. But like most things in AWS, it can take some getting used to. To help you make the most of CloudWatch Metrics, we've put together this comprehensive guide.

Cloudcraft is a tool that lets cloud architects design and visualize cloud infrastructure. It acts as a digital canvas, helping you map out everything from simple diagrams to complex systems. If you’re working on a project plan or brainstorming ideas, Cloudcraft makes it easier to see how all the pieces come together. In this post, we’ll talk about what makes Cloudcraft useful for cloud professionals and how to get the most out of it.

As the Product Manager for Honeycomb’s new frontend product, Honeycomb for Frontend Observability, I’ve had the joy this past year of speaking to dozens of frontend engineering teams about observability. Many frontend teams come from worlds where they either rely on QA and customer reports to identify issues in production, or they use real use monitoring (RUM) and error monitoring tools to catch the most egregious issues.

Grafana Tempo 2.7 is here, and while the latest release is primarily focused on performance and operational improvements, we managed to sneak in some new TraceQL features, too!

As more organizations move their databases to cloud-native environments, effectively managing and monitoring these systems becomes crucial. According to Coroot’s anonymous usage statistics, 64% of projects use PostgreSQL, making it the most popular RDBMS among our users, compared to 14% using MySQL. This is not surprising since it is also the most widely used open-source database worldwide.

This is an updated version of an earlier blog post to reflect current definitions of a telemetry pipeline and additional capabilities available in Mezmo Our recent blog post about observability pipelines highlighted how they centralize and enable telemetry data actionability. A key benefit of telemetry pipelines is users don't have to compare data sets manually or rely on batch processing to derive insights, which can be done directly while the data is in motion.