How Slack Transformed Their CI With Tracing
Slack experienced meteoric growth between 2017 and 2020—but that level of growth came with growing pains. In his talk at the 2021 o11ycon+hnycon, Frank Chen...
Shipping on a Spent Error Budget
Modern software services are expected to be highly available, and running a service with minimal interruptions requires a certain amount of reliability-focused engineering work. At...
Designing Honeycomb for Our Users
You might have noticed some visual changes happening in Honeycomb lately. Colors, typography, icons, and some features have started to look a bit different. While...
Data Availability Isn’t Observability
But it’s better than nothing... Most of the industry is racing to adopt better observability practices, and they’re discovering lots of power in being able...
The State of Observability in 2021
Observability adoption has increased as more companies seek to understand how their applications behave in production and quickly identify and resolve problems. Our second annual...
A New Approach to Metrics
Today at o11ycon+hnycon—right now, actually, if you’re reading this blog when it was posted—we’re announcing several new Honeycomb features during the keynote. Our industry and...
The Least Worst Online Conference Ever
I am sick of online events. I can barely rouse myself to give a shit about one more virtual conference. They all start to feel...
Nine Reasons to Attend o11ycon+hnycon
You’ve probably seen the announcement about our upcoming annual conference, o11ycon+hnycon, happening June 9–10. If you’re still not registered, here’s a list of nine reasons...
Easily Debug Your AWS Lambda Functions With Honeycomb
With the Honeycomb extension for AWS Lambda, you no longer need to make your Lambda functions Honeycomb-aware. Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS...
Learn About the Future of Shipping Software at o11ycon+hnycon
Have you registered for o11ycon+hnycon yet? If not, now’s the time! This highly interactive virtual event is happening June 9–10 and designed to connect you...
ICYMI: How Honeycomb Can Help You Achieve the Deployment Part of CI/CD
In case you missed it, this webinar includes code walkthroughs that help you to add observability to your pipelines (using a free Honeycomb account!) so...
6 Steps to Getting Started With Observability
During my office hours, I frequently get asked for practical tips on getting started with observability. Often it’s from folks on teams who are already...
Announcing New Honeycomb Management API
Starting today, Honeycomb's Management API is generally available to all Honeycomb users. The Honeycomb Management API is a set of endpoints that lets you programmatically...
Lessons Learned From the Migration to Confluent Kafka
Over the last few months, Honeycomb’s platform team migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. Our migration to this newer...
o11ycon+hnycon Call for Presentations
In case you missed it, Honeycomb is gearing up for our conference, o11ycon. Based on your feedback, we’re also adding a new day to that...