What am I going to learn?

Do you want your team to get more value out of Honeycomb without everyone rebuilding the same queries, repeating the same investigations, or losing important insights in Slack threads? Maybe you’re already comfortable querying on your own, but when an incident hits, the work still feels fragmented: people investigate in parallel, share screenshots instead of reusable artifacts, and the team struggles to align on what’s actually happening.

Observability works best when it’s a shared practice, not an individual skill. That’s the idea behind Observability-Driven Development (ODD): teams build better software when they “show their work,” capture investigative context, and turn one-off debugging into reusable team knowledge. Honeycomb supports this kind of collaboration by making your queries, findings, and system context easy to organize, share, and reuse.

In this course, you’ll learn how to move from siloed query work to collaborative workflows that help your team investigate faster and build lasting operational knowledge. You’ll practice building team habits around observability, organizing and tagging shared assets, and using Honeycomb features like Boards, Saved Queries, Query History, Tags, Service Map, and Permalinks to make investigations discoverable and repeatable.

By the end of this course, you’ll be able to create sustainable team workflows that reduce duplicated effort, accelerate incident response, and improve system reliability, making observability a true team sport.

How will I learn these things?

This course teaches collaboration in Honeycomb through short videos, knowledge checks, and scenario-driven labs designed to mirror real team workflows.

• Videos introduce the core mindset of collaboration and walk through Honeycomb’s collaboration features, showing how to save, organize, tag, and share queries and team artifacts effectively.

• Hands-On Labs give you guided practice using Boards, Query History, Tags, and Permalinks during realistic incident triage and post-incident review workflows so you can build habits that stick.

• Knowledge checks reinforce the key ideas so you leave confident using logs in Honeycomb on your own.

What do I need before taking this course to be successful?

• A Honeycomb account with trace data flowing in.

• Familiarity with Honeycomb querying (building queries, filtering, grouping, and interpreting results).

• Prior experience with Honeycomb alerting workflows (Triggers, SLOs).

• Understanding of core Honeycomb concepts like datasets, fields, and events.

• Does all of this sound new to you? Check out our Navigating Honeycomb course!