Instrumentation & Onboarding with Honeycomb

We've guided thousands of organizations into the powerful world of observability. Let us get you started with some strategies and quick wins that can show your team the power of end-to-end visibility into your systems.

Get in the mindset

• What is instrumentation?

• This guide has tips on how to approach instrumentation strategically

• What does a good trace look like?

• Don’t just take our word for it. See a real example here on useful tips for rolling out distributed tracing

• Here is a series of short videos to give you a solid basis of the terminology, instrumentation and Honeycomb basics

Instrument the code

• Start with an auto Instrumentation video

• Read the best practices guide to getting started

• Follow it up with some more concrete details here

• Reference code language examples or join the conversation on the OTel Github repository

• Can't see your data? Try this troubleshooting video and documentation with common issues

Get a feel for the potential

• Once you have some data into Honeycomb lets learn how to harness it

• Learn how to navigate the Honeycomb home screen and get a quick introduction to query builder in Honeycomb Academy!

• Build a board with our easy-to-use templates

• Review it with your team and create some excitement!

Get more sophisticated

Now that you can see the potential lets get more into the details to unlock the next level of observability

• Learn how to customize your instrumentation creating custom spans in this video

• Learn how to instrument exception handling in this video

• Build libraries for your team to instrument services quickly

• Educate and enable your team with the Honeycomb Academy!

• Setup a hack-day, see what your team can unlock!