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The "Meh-trics" Reloaded: Why I Was 100% Wrong About Metrics (and Also 100% Right)

Okay, I'm going to say something that would make 2016 Charity want to throw her laptop across the room: we're making a major investment in metrics at Honeycomb. I know, I know. "But Charity, you literally called them ‘shit salad!’" I did. Also "nerfed dimensions." I said they would "fucking kneecap you." For most of the past decade, I've been social media’s most reliable anti-metrics evangelist. Have I repented? No.

Enhancements to Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Deliver Greater Visibility, Smarter Control, and Lower Costs

In July, we introduced powerful new Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline features that helped teams take control of their observability data with safe sampling, flexible rehydration, and a visual pipeline builder. Since then, we’ve built on that foundation. Today, we’re introducing the latest enhancements to Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline, which give teams deeper visibility into pipeline health, more efficient access to archived telemetry data, and reduced operational complexity.

Introducing Honeycomb Private Cloud

More and more enterprises are shifting toward private cloud and hybrid deployments for control, data residency, and security. At the same time, observability is no longer a “nice to have” tool. It's mission-critical for teams driving rapid change across cloud-native, multi-service architectures. Leaders are realizing they need deep visibility and rapid debugging everywhere their systems run.

How to Onboard AWS & Azure Hosts in SolarWinds Observability

Connecting your cloud infrastructure has never been easier. In this quick walkthrough, you’ll see how SolarWinds Observability natively integrates with AWS and Azure to onboard virtual machines and supported managed services—fast. Select your hyperscaler Click “Add Data” → Choose “Hosts” Follow simple steps to connect your cloud environment via API Whether you're running AWS EC2, Azure VMs, or other managed services, SolarWinds helps you get visibility in minutes.

Node.js Performance Monitoring Guide

Node.js applications power millions of APIs, microservices, and real-time systems. But without proper monitoring, performance issues, memory leaks, and errors can go undetected until they impact users. This guide explains how to monitor Node.js applications in production, what metrics to track, and which tools deliver the best results.

AlOps - Laying a Strong Foundation with Full-Stack Observability

It is fair to say that AIOps is much more than just a catchy tagline; in fact, it is now a fundamental aspect of every enterprise looking to manage a modern, cloud-native architecture along with a distributed system. As AIOps becomes more widely adopted and organizations start expanding, the amount of logs, metrics and traces becomes too much for role-based tracking and monitoring tools. This is the moment in which full-stack observability tools are needed, providing valuable data that observability AIOps engines rely on for their predictive, proactive, and performance issue detection.

How to Monitor RabbitMQ

A queue quietly fills up overnight. Memory hits the configured watermark and RabbitMQ blocks all publishers. Your entire message pipeline freezes, and you discover the problem when users start complaining. This scenario repeats across thousands of production systems because teams don't monitor RabbitMQ properly. The broker exposes comprehensive metrics, but most engineers don't know which ones predict failures or how to track them.

#observability needs more than tools. It needs the right data.

Good observability starts with good data. In this clip, we hear how Cribl gives teams real control over their data pipelines so they can collect, enrich, and route telemetry from any source to the right destination. It is not just about more dashboards or another platform. It is about building an observability ecosystem that connects IT, security, and the business through cleaner data and smarter AIOps. Tool rationalization and AI driven pipelines are not future goals. They are happening right now.

How to Achieve Deep Network Visibility with SolarWinds Observability SaaS

Looking for a faster way to discover every device on your network? This video walks through how SolarWinds Observability automatically scans and classifies network gear—including routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and SD-WAN devices—in seconds. You’ll learn how to: This is the easiest way to get full network visibility without scripts, config files, or manual inventory work.

How to Monitor .NET Applications on Linux with SolarWinds Observability | Step-by-Step Setup

This video provides a step-by-step walkthrough for configuring monitoring for.NET applications running on Linux using SolarWinds Observability. The demonstration covers the full setup process—from adding a new service to verifying the APM library connection. Topics covered in this video include: This guide is intended for developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers who need to quickly and reliably instrument.NET applications on Linux for performance monitoring and observability.