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CIO metrics are failing digital transformation; it’s time to radically rethink success

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However, the metrics used to evaluate CIOs are hindering progress. While the CIO role has expanded significantly, the metrics used to evaluate their performance often remain tied to traditional IT values like cost management, operational efficiency, and system uptime. The CIO is no longer the chief of “keeping the lights on.”

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How to Get Infinite Custom Metrics For Free

Honeycomb

To find out, we go look for a metric that tells us how much memory is available, and we graph it around the time that our errors occurred. Metrics are traditionally stored as time series: every 30 seconds (or 10 seconds, or 5 minutes), check the memory levels and report them. How can we get the metrics we need on every log or span?

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An Ode to Events

Honeycomb

At this point, it’s almost passé to write a blog post comparing events to the three pillars. Regardless, I’m going to talk about how great events are and use some analogies to try to get that across. Events are an all-in-one approach I appreciate how comprehensive events are. Nobody really wants to give up their position.

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The startup CIO’s guide to formalizing IT for liquidity events

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It just crossed $100M in revenue and is approaching a major liquidity event, such as an IPO. But as you speak with an expanding cadre of lawyers, accountants, and bankers, you start to appreciate what such an event means for your department. And second, you have a clear metric of improvement: the number of days taken to close.”

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It’s never too late to align product-market fit metrics with your company’s values

TechCrunch

At TechCrunch’s Early Stage event a few weeks ago in Boston, David Thacker , a general partner at Greylock, advised startups to keep it simple: focus, adjust and adapt. This metric may vary by stage, but Series A and onwards is when it becomes critical for a company to have PMF. How do you get your idea to resonate in the world?

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On the journey to Series B, strategy is more important than metrics

TechCrunch

Software founders have never had so many metrics thrown at them by VCs on how to run a business. Across social media, in newsletters and at events, it’s been hard to escape charts on measuring CAC, cash burn, growth and efficiency. We’ve never believed that great businesses are built solely on metrics or KPIs.

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How Metrics Behave in Honeycomb

Honeycomb

Honeycomb has the ability to receive events from applications. These events can take the shape of Honeycomb wide events, OpenTelemetry trace spans, and OpenTelemetry metrics. Honeycomb shows metrics alongside relevant queries to add the infrastructure contexts to the application’s performance over a given time range.

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