What am I going to learn in this learning path?

You and your team want to understand not just what’s happening in your systems, but why it’s happening—so you can resolve issues quickly, improve reliability, and deliver better customer experiences. To do that, you need to know how to navigate Honeycomb, explore your data, and connect telemetry to meaningful outcomes.

The Honeycomb Practitioner learning path teaches you the core skills every Honeycomb user needs. You’ll learn how to move confidently through the Honeycomb interface, apply the core analysis loop to ask and answer questions about your systems, troubleshoot real-world issues, and define Service Level Objectives (SLOs) to measure and improve reliability. By the end, you’ll be able to use Honeycomb not just to observe your systems, but to drive better engineering and business outcomes.

How will I learn these things?

This learning path is made up of multiple courses that combine:

• Videos that explain concepts and demonstrate workflows in Honeycomb.

• Hands-on labs where you’ll practice exploring traces, analyzing data, and working with SLOs.

• Knowledge checks and quizzes to reinforce your learning and give you confidence in applying what you’ve learned.

Together, these courses provide a structured way to become proficient with Honeycomb and build habits you can apply directly to your team’s systems.

What do I need before taking this learning path to be successful?

• A general understanding of what observability is.

• An intermediate understanding of—and, ideally, some experience with—modern software systems and application development.