Tracing and Observability for Background Jobs
Illuminating the under-loved with Honeycomb Most modern web apps end up sprouting some subset of tasks that happen in the “background”, i.e., when a user...
Observations from SRECon Americas, Brooklyn, NY - March 2019
"We can know one thing: shit's gonna fail." Last week we participated in SRECon Americas, held across three days of intensive learning with practitioner talks,...
Instrument Your Java App In Minutes with the Honeycomb Beeline for Java
We are excited to announce automatic instrumentation for your Java apps through our new Honeycomb Beeline for Java! This new Beeline streamlines instrumentation of HTTP...
Support Your Customers More Effectively with Honeycomb
Customer success can be a serious differentiator and competitive advantage for companies today. Everyone wants to ship quality products to their customers faster, and the...
BubbleUp Meets Tracing (and Other Odd-shaped Data)
A few weeks ago, BubbleUp came out of Beta. We've been getting fantastic user feedback on how BubbleUp helps users speed through the Core Analysis...
How To Talk to Your Boss About Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we're pretty engineering-focused. We think our product is something every developer can benefit from, and we're working to build something we would want...
The True Cost of “Search-First” Problem-solving on Your Production Systems
The search-first problem-solving approach—meaning “open up the log search tool” (Splunk, ELK, Loggly, SumoLogic, Scalyr, etc)—is a costly and time-consuming operation during which the true...
Metric Analysis, Application Performance Monitoring, and Log Management: Where Does Honeycomb Fit In?
If you’re involved in improving the performance of your application, you’ve probably heard about application performance monitoring (APM), metric analysis, and log management. But you...
How Much Should My Observability Stack Cost?
What should one pay for observability? What should your observability stack cost? What should be in your observability stack? How much observability is enough? How...
Diving into Data with Honeycomb: BubbleUp (formerly codename: Drilldown) is in Beta!
This blog miniseries talks about how to think about doing data analysis the Honeycomb way. In this episode, we announce an exciting new feature, currently...
The Core Analysis Loop, or: Heatmaps Make Analysis Better
In this blog miniseries, I'm talking about how to think about doing data analysis, the Honeycomb way. In Part I, I talked about how heatmaps...
Honeycomb and Rookout: An Integration That Finds the Dots to Connect
This guest blog post is by Or Weis, Co-Founder and CEO of Rookout, the Rapid Debugging Company. He’s a low-level engineer and a CybSec Expert. You...
Heatmaps Make Ops Better
In this blog miniseries, I'd like to talk about how to think about doing data analysis "the Honeycomb way." Welcome to part 1, where I...
Our Experience: Thundra Integration for Honeycomb
This is a guest post from Salih Kardan, Software Engineer @Thundra and Committer at Apache, formerly SRE @Opsgenie. He specializes in managing AWS services and...
Explore RubyGems data with Honeycomb
Our new RubyGems.org public dataset is now available — use it to analyze global download traffic of all gems hosted on RubyGems! About RubyGems.org RubyGems.org...