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Conditional Distributed Tracing

Jun 21, 2021 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
Distributed tracing is generally a binary affair—it's off or on. Either a trace is sampled or, according to a flag, it's not. Span placement is also assumed to be an "always-on" system where spans are always added if the trace is active. For general availability and service-level objectives, this is usually good enough. But when we encounter problems, we need more. In this talk, I'll show you how to "turn up the dial" with detailed diagnostic spans and span events that are inserted using dynamic conditions.
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Observability is More Fun With Friends: Stories From OpenTelemetry Collaboration

Jun 21, 2021 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
Panel Guests: Amy Tobey | Equinix Metal, Andrew Hayworth | GitHub, Liz Fong-Jones | Honeycomb, Ted Young | Lightstep The modern open source landscape is hard enough, given the (sometimes) conflicting interests of commercial partners, end-users, and project maintainers. It takes a real, intentional effort to build collaborative relationships across these groups in order to make improvements to projects. In this panel, we'll share stories about what's worked from our involvement in OpenTelemetry as maintainers, community representatives, and end-users.
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How To Implement Cloud Observability Like A Pro | Pepperdata

Jun 21, 2021 By Pepperdata In Pepperdata
Do traditional on-prem observability techniques translate to the cloud? Many big data enterprises lack observability and thus struggle to manage and understand unprecedented amounts of data in the cloud. A monitoring solution may alert to a problem, but it can’t pinpoint the issue or quickly get to the root cause.
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Data Availability Isn't Observability

Jun 17, 2021 By Fred Hebert In Honeycomb

But it’s better than nothing… Most of the industry is racing to adopt better observability practices, and they’re discovering lots of power in being able to see and measure what their systems are doing. High data availability is better than none, so for the time being, what we get is often impressive. There’s a qualitative difference between observability and data availability, and this post aims to highlight it and orient how we structure our telemetry.

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The State of Observability in 2021

Jun 16, 2021 By George Miranda In Honeycomb

Today, we released our second annual Observability Maturity Community Research Findings report. This year-over-year report identifies trends occurring in the observability community that we use to further develop our Observability Maturity Model. Our goal in running this annual report is to understand community perceptions and awareness of observability, how engineering teams are approaching observability, and mapping an observability maturity model that reflects current research findings.

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The Crossroad of Security & Observability in Kubernetes: A Fireside Chat

Jun 11, 2021 By Tigera In Tigera
Security as an afterthought is no longer an option and must be deeply embedded in the design and implementation of the products that will be running in the cloud. It is increasingly more critical for many security teams to be almost, if not equally, knowledgeable of the emerging and rapidly evolving technology. Join Manish Sampat from Tigera, as explores the topic in detail with Stan Lee from Paypal.
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Service Mesh, Observability and Beyond - Sheetal Joshi, AWS

Jun 11, 2021 By Tigera In Tigera
Congratulations! You’re now cloud-native with microservices. No more legacy monoliths. However, troubleshooting takes time, debugging is difficult, and security is scary. How can you scale your organization without losing an understanding of your environment? Services mesh is here to help! It gives you the observability of connected services and is easier to adopt than you might think. Come and learn service mesh concepts, best practices, and key challenges.
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