Focused Labs and Honeycomb.io announced a strategic partnership aimed at modernizing legacy systems and enhancing observability practices.
This collaboration brings together Focused Labs' expertise in building bespoke software solutions with Honeycomb's innovative observability platform to offer an unprecedented white-glove experience to customers.
At the core of this partnership is a shared vision to help customers achieve greater uptime, increase system transparency, and meet their specific objectives.
Together, Focused Labs and Honeycomb.io are unlocking a host of benefits for shared customers, centered around OpenTelemetry (OTel) instrumentation and the seamless integration of data into Honeycomb.io. This partnership is designed to empower your organization with:
- A kick-off call to review scope and goals: Starting with a clear understanding of your objectives and what you aim to achieve, ensuring our efforts perfectly align with your vision.
- Setting up your data telemetry pipeline: Establishing a robust pipeline to ensure seamless data flow into Honeycomb.io, optimizing data collection and integration processes for maximum efficiency.
- Training your teams on the Honeycomb.io platform: Providing comprehensive training on the Honeycomb.io platform, enabling your team to utilize its full potential for monitoring, analysis, and decision-making.
- Customizations for Boards, Derived Columns, & SLO Setup: Tailoring the Honeycomb.io environment to fit your specific needs, including custom dashboards, metrics, and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) configurations to monitor your systems effectively.
- Addressing Custom Needs Around Observability: Recognizing that each organization has unique challenges and requirements, we are ready to address whatever custom needs you have around observability, ensuring a solution that's tailored to your situation.
"In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, knowing how new and old applications are operating is critical. The partnership between Focused Labs and Honeycomb.io represents a pivotal moment for both our companies and, more importantly, for our clients. By combining Honeycomb's cutting-edge observability platform with Focused Labs' commitment to building on the world's legacy, we are setting a new standard for what businesses can achieve. Honeycomb.io enables our customers to prioritize the modernization of their legacy using observation and data to drive value," said Austin Vance, CEO of Focused Labs.
"Offering a hands-on solution for customized implementation as our customers modernize their observability practice is hugely important to us," said Manny Alves, Vice President of Customer Success at Honeycomb. "Our partnership with Focused Labs will allow us to extend our expertise as the pioneers of observability and enable engineers to use Honeycomb.io to answer novel questions about their ever-evolving cloud applications so they can deploy confidently, resolve incidents faster, and focus on high-value work that drives innovation."
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