Charity Majors

Charity Majors

Observability Pioneer

Honeycomb

Biography

Charity Majors co-founded Honeycomb and championed observability engineering. She was previously at Parse and Facebook.

Daily Work

  • Leading Honeycomb as CTO
  • Writing about observability
  • Speaking about debugging
  • Advocating for engineering practices

Challenges

“Monitoring tells you when something’s wrong. Observability helps you understand why. That difference matters.”

Impact

Charity has shaped how the industry thinks about observability and debugging modern systems.