Iterating on an OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment in Kubernetes
When you want to direct your observability data in a uniform fashion, you want to run an OpenTelemetry collector. If you have a Kubernetes cluster...
Find and Fix Bottlenecks in Your Gradle Builds With OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb
Today, I’d like to share with you a new community-contributed integration that helps you optimize and debug your Gradle builds. This new Gradle plugin is...
Incident Review: Shepherd Cache Delays
In this incident review, we’ll cover the outage from September 8th, 2022, where our ingest system went down repeatedly and caused interruptions for over eight...
Debugging Just Got Faster and Easier With New Enhancements to BubbleUp
We’re thrilled to share that we’ve made significant enhancements to BubbleUp that will enable users to BubbleUp from more parts of the Honeycomb UI beyond...
Get More Out of OpenTelemetry With Honeycomb's Latest Updates
Just a few short months ago, we talked about a bunch of updates to Honeycomb’s support for OpenTelemetry. To the surprise of no one, we’ve...
Authors’ Cut—Gear up! Exploring the Broader Observability Ecosystem of Cloud-Native, DevOps, and SRE
You know that old adage about not seeing the forest for the trees? In our Authors’ Cut series, we’ve been looking at the trees that...
Honeycomb Welcomes New Field CTO
I am thrilled to share with you that Honeycomb now has a Field CTO: our very own Liz Fong-Jones....
Authors’ Cut—Shifting Cultural Gears: How to Show the Business Value of Observability
How do you solve the people and culture problems that are necessary in making the shift to adopt observability practices? And once you instill those...
New Honeycomb Integration With ServiceNow
Today, I’d like to tell you about a new community-contributed integration that connects Honeycomb to your ServiceNow workflows. My new integration reimagines what’s possible when...
Feature Focus: September 2022
Feature Focus: September 2022. Here's a look at improvements we've made to Honeycomb in September, including: updates to a buuunch of APIs, new integrations, and...
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering
In the beginning, there were people who wrote and ran software. At some point, we spun away ops skills from dev skills into two different...
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: Three Companies Check Into OTel Observability
Learn how Jimdo, Upgrade, and Campspot benefited from OpenTelemetry, whether in improved performance, or by avoiding vendor lock-in....
Sense and Signals
Part of understanding a complex, distributed software system as a socio-technical system means taking seriously that the signals the stewards receive aren’t just chatter....
How Do I Do Availability Checks in Honeycomb?
Let’s dig into what we mean by an Availability Check and how that maps to observability, tracing, and supporting production systems....
Running the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps
In this post, we’ll look at how to host the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps. There are a few gotchas with how it’s deployed,...