Honeycomb Blog

From Chaos to Clarity: How Honeycomb Tags Are Transforming Developer Workflows

We're thrilled to announce that Honeycomb Tags are now generally available across SLOs, triggers, and boards! Over 100 customers are already actively tagging their observability resources in Honeycomb today.

Error Analysis in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability Now in Public Beta

Traditional error tracking surfaces what broke. Honeycomb shows you why, and how to fix it. With Error Analysis in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability, now in public beta, teams get a streamlined way to investigate and prioritize client-side errors without writing a single query.

Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World

Every day I seem to run into yet another post with someone solemnly opining that “writing code has never been the hardest part of software engineering.

How I Use GenAI as a Thought Partner, Not a Shortcut

You don’t need to be a power user to get powerful results. I’m not training models or prompting GPTs into poetry—I’m just using them to do what great managers already try to do: communicate clearly, prioritize outcomes, and lead with intention.

AWS Summit NYC 2025: Laser-Focused on AI

If you’re unfamiliar with AWS Summits, these are conferences that occur on a yearly basis in different cities. The events are mostly used to announce new products and technologies. This year, the theme was AI, as evidenced by the keynote, a large majority of the talks, and a walk around the vendor floor.

Will AI Speed Development in Your Legacy App?

Some people can get an AI assistant to write a day’s worth of useful code in ten minutes. Others among us can only watch it crank out hundreds of lines of crap that never works. What’s the difference?

Honeycomb Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Honeycomb In Your IDE? Yes, With Hosted MCP Now Available in AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools Category

I’m pleased to announce the public beta of Honeycomb Hosted MCP, along with our first wave of one-click integrations for Cursor, Visual Studio Code, and Claude Desktop.

Honeycomb Announces Availability of MCP in the New AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools Category

The Fast Path to More Useful Telemetry

What Are Traces? A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Tracing

Honeycomb Users Are Living in the Future, Part 1: Sampling

Is Your Observability Strategy Boardroom-Ready?

Can Claude Code Observe Its Own Code?

One of the great things about OpenTelemetry is that it’s a standard, and standards tend to proliferate. I was excited to see Claude Code add OpenTelemetry metric and log support in a recent release.

Honeycomb Announces Innovations in Telemetry Pipeline to Advance Enterprise Observability

Enhance and Pipeline Builder help teams to manage their data while controlling costs and accelerating OpenTelemetry adoption

Observability Without Tradeoffs: Introducing Powerful New Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Features

Honeycomb Observability Day London: A Jam-Packed Day of Great Talks

Tales From the Trench: Building With LLMs and Honeycomb

AI discourse these days is all over the place. Depending on who you talk to, AI’s are absolute flash-in-the-pan junk, or they’re the best thing since sliced bread.

It’s The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

In a really broad sense, the history of observability tools over the past couple of decades have been about a pretty simple concept: how do we make terabytes of heterogeneous telemetry data comprehensible to human beings?

Beyond Shift Left: Engineering Leaders Increase Speed and Resilience With Observability

We recently had the privilege of hosting several industry experts and technology executives across platform strategy, SRE, and engineering enablement for breakfast at our Observability Day in London.