We help engineering teams deeply understand their own production systems through observability

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Our mission

Bring observability to every software engineer.

Observability is the building block for all other engineering best practices; by investing in observability, teams enable those valuable feedback loops. We build for the people who build software and the people who build software teams, in order to better serve the people who rely on it all.

 
 

 

Our values

Our values are the “how” in how we work with our colleagues, engage with our community, and build observability software.

 

 

Fast and close to right is better than perfect

Take pride in your craft and ship relentlessly. Be like our storage engine: 99% right in milliseconds is better than 100% right in an hour. Code in production is worth two in canary.

 

We hire adults

Pay attention to your mind and body so you can give and get help. All of us wobble, and being transparent about that means we can support each other. Participate fully in collaboration, coaching and management. If any group of us were together in a car on a long road trip, there would be no need for a dividing line in the back seat to keep people from hitting each other.

 

Everything is an experiment

Don’t get attached to specific outcomes, as they can prevent you from moving forward. Construct your experiments with purpose, evaluate them with honesty, share your results, and iterate. Failure is a constant, it’s what we learn that matters.

 

Feedback is a muscle

Giving and receiving feedback is like strengthening a muscle. This is not a skill we are born with, or ever perfectly master; 
and nobody gets it right every single time. But we can all get 
better at it by practicing—pushing ourselves a little past our 
comfort zone, everyday.

 

Act with autonomy and ownership

Come curious. Focus on impact over output. Be generous with your ideas and use your judgment. Optimize for our collective success, not individual glory. Kill your darlings. Be bold, shake it up, don’t assume the way things are was on purpose. Do it with style.

 
 

Our customers

Our customers know that observability is key to delivering software both quickly and reliably. Engineering teams become high-performing teams when armed with Honeycomb observability software.

 
 
 
 

Our people

We think equally about building Honeycomb the product, the business, and the company. We’re committed to building a software engineering company of which our people are proud to have been a part.

 

Meet The Team

 
 

 
 
 
 

Our opportunity

Observability is the future—and it’s up to us to take the lead and shape that future through observability software engineering. We believe in questioning the status quo and charting our own path. Perhaps you do, too.

 

Open Positions

 
 
 
 
 

Investors

We’re honored to be backed by investors who believe we’re the future of observability.

 

As well as Mike Krieger, Ilya Sukhar, Anamitra Banerji, Venkat Venkataramani, and a number of other angels.

 
 
 
 
 

Catch us at these upcoming events

 

Virtual

3/20/2025

AI’s Unrealized Potential: Honeycomb and DORA on Smarter, More Reliable Development with LLMs

Watch this webinar with DORA and Honeycomb to explore the challenges of AI usage in software engineering and how teams can avoid common pitfalls.


Santa Clara, CA

March 27, 2025

AIOps: Prove It! An Open Letter to Vendors Selling AI for SREs

Join Charity Majors and Fred Hebert at SRECon Americas for "AIOps: Prove It! An Open Letter to Vendors Selling AI for SREs."


San Francisco, CA

March 7, 2025

The Socio-Technical Elements That Make Good Platforms

Join Charity Majors and Fred Hebert at Code BEAM America for our talk "The Socio-Technical Elements That Make Good Platforms."