Slicing Up—and Iterating on—SLOs
One of the main pieces of advice about Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is that they should focus on the user experience. Invariably, this leads to...
Wiring Up a Next.js Self-Hosted Application to Honeycomb
This blog post will get you started ingesting your Next.js application’s telemetry into Honeycomb. I’ll show you the configuration steps, how to view your traces...
Preempting Problems in a Sociotechnical System
Here at Honeycomb, we emphasize that organizations are sociotechnical systems. At a high level, that means that “wet-brained” people and the stuff they do is...
Stop Logging the Request Body!
With more and more people adopting OpenTelemetry and specifically using the tracing signal, I’ve seen an uptick in people wanting to add the entire request...
Frontend Monitoring: Deliver Seamless and Performant User Experiences
In this blog, we’ll share the fundamentals of frontend monitoring, including what you need to know about performance measurement and strategies for staying ahead of...
Why Observability 2.0 Is Such a Gamechanger
One of the hardest parts of my job is to get people to appreciate just how much of a difference Honeycomb/observability 2.0 is compared to...
Booking.com’s Journey to Enhanced Observability
Since its early startup beginnings in Amsterdam, Booking.com has redefined the travel industry, establishing itself as a premier platform for millions of travelers worldwide. With...
Catching Up With Fender: How Frontend Observability Powers Better User Experiences
For years, Fender Musical Instruments has been synonymous with iconic guitars and amplifiers. But in recent years, the company has expanded its legacy into the...
Restructuring How We Think About Alerts
Back in Alerts Are Fundamentally Messy, I made the point that the events we monitor are often fuzzy and uncertain. To make a distinction between...
The Future and The Floor: Framing Investments for Growth
There are a limited number of investments that a team can make in any given year and it can be daunting to choose the “right”...
Welcome Jessica Nunn To Our Board of Directors!
Ever since January of 2022, we have had an employee representative seated on our board of directors. Paul Osman was the first employee to hold...
Configuring a React Application with Honeycomb For Frontend Observability
In this article, I’ll lay out approaches for wiring Honeycomb to client-side only React so you can ingest your telemetry into Honeycomb and take advantage...
Tracing Refinery
We recently released Refinery 2.9, which came with great performance improvements. Reading through the release notes, I felt the need to write a piece on...
AIOps: Prove It!
I’ve read a steadily increasing stream of articles about using AI in SRE, and I have yet to find one that inspires my trust. Each...
Implementing High-Cardinality Instrumentation in Frontend Apps
In speaking with frontend engineers this past year, I realized that understanding the power of wide events is a big mental shift. We’re used to...