Instrumenting Observability: Getting Started and Pro Tips

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Systems are increasingly complex and distributed, and standard metrics, monitoring, and logging aren’t enough: they catch known unknowns and send real-time updates – but what about what you don’t know? How do you set up a system that helps you see what you care about now and prepare for what you'll want to know in the future? Christine Yen, Chief Product Officer and co-founder at Honeycomb.io, joins Lachie Evenson to break down how she thinks about observability - from the problems it solves to why it's like peeling an onion - and demos how to instrument your code and make it easier to ask and answer questions (read: observable). 00:26 What is observability? 01:16 Explaining observability (tangible examples) 02:08 Contrasting observability and traditional monitoring 03:29 Check out Christine's demo 08:03 Christine's instrumentation tip Check out a previous episode with Christine, Intro to Observability: https://www.aka.ms/Intro_To_Observability Explore Open Source @ Microsoft.: https://opensource.microsoft.com Check out Honeycomb.io's Achieving Observability guide: https://www.honeycomb.io/resources/guide-achieving-observability/ Read the Honeycomb blog: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/ Read about monitoring and observability on Cindy Sridharan's blog: https://medium.com/@copyconstruct/monitoring-and-observability-8417d1952e1c Visit the free Honeycomb.io sandbox to explore and see what observability is like in real life: https://www.honeycomb.io/play/ Check out thi

Published 2018-10-30 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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