About
Liz is a developer advocate, labor and ethics organizer, and Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) with over two decades of experience. She is currently a Technical Fellow at honeycomb.io, and previously was an SRE working on products ranging from the Google Cloud Load Balancer to Google Flights. She lives in Sydney, NSW and Vancouver, BC with her wife Elly and partners. She plays classical piano, leads an EVE Online alliance, and advocates for transgender rights.
Session
Making Production Legible to Agents: Lessons from Building an Observability MCP
KeynoteAn agent that can query production telemetry can test its own hypotheses against reality, rather than hallucinate fictions. Observability tooling allows our agents to close the loop and benefit from production wisdom. Today, more than 40% of Honeycomb's weekly active users run production queries through our MCP server via their agents. But an MCP server must do more than wrap existing APIs to be legible to the agents. Getting token economy, tool descriptions, or schemas wrong makes access technically present but practically useless. I'll walk through the output format choices, decisions from evals, and bugs (solved and still being found) that made ours trustworthy in production, enabling users and their agents to see clearly in production.
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Cloud Native AI Summit — Melbourne
October 28–29, 2026