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Feature Focus: August 2022

It’s already September! Time flies by when you’re getting things done, and we’ve been a busy bunch of bees here at Honeycomb. 🐝 We’re excited that we’ve gotten to share some of those changes with you already, like our relaunched interactive sandbox and the beta release of our OpenTelemetry log support and Go distribution, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Measuring Cloud Unit Costs for FinOps

Cloud adoption has been on an upward trajectory for over a decade with no signs of slowing down. As widescale migration becomes the norm, organizations are realizing cloud financial management — also referred to as FinOps — is critical to creating long term value in the cloud. Building a culture of financial discipline requires visibility and a strategy for measuring success along the way.

How to add a Golden Signal to a service in Gremlin RM

In this video, we show you how to add a Golden Signal to a service. Gremlin uses your Golden Signals to ensure your services are still healthy and responsive during reliability tests. You can configure Golden Signals to use an existing monitor in your observability tools, such as Datadog, New Relic, or Prometheus. We recommend adding all four Golden Signals to each of your services to ensure comprehensive coverage.

Building a one-stop Open Source Observability Platform | OpenObservability Podcast

Pranay, one of the the co-founders at SigNoz, was recently invited as a guest speaker by Jonah Kowall, CTO at Logz.io on his OpenObservability Podcast. In the podcast, Pranay talks about the mission behind SigNoz - unifying traces, metrics, and logs in a single platform and interface. He also shared anecdotes about the evolution of SigNoz since its inception, the community adoption, and its contribution to SigNoz.

How DBAs are Using SolarWinds DPM and Marginalia to reduce MTTR

Database performance is critical to business revenue. Slow and non-responsive databases can result in hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in lost revenue from poor customer experience and downtime. High expectations in performance require IT infrastructure to function at full speed. In 2006, an Amazon study found that every 100ms in added page load time cost them 1% in sales.

RESOLVE '22: Measuring what matters

Companies can take big strides toward “preventing preventable” incidents by minding what they measure. What’s in a name? In Measuring what matters, one of the panels at our RESOLVE ‘22 event, the three words in the title reflect a plan successful IT Ops teams have embraced to reduce the complexity of their reporting systems—resulting in a faster path for companies to make more effective use of all the IT resources at their disposal.