Event Foo: What Should I Add to an Event?
When we’re talking with people about how they should start using Honeycomb, many ask for guidance about what should go into an event. Though there...
Event Foo: Building Better Events
This post from new Honeycomber Rachel Perkins is the seventh in our series on the how, why, and what of events. An event is a...
Introducing the New Honeycomb Quick Start
Today we are pleased to announce the release of the new Honeycomb Quick Start to help you in your quest to become an observability master....
Honeycomb <3 Kubernetes Observability
Introducing the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent and ksonnet integration We’re excited to release the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent. The agent provides a flexible way to aggregate, structure,...
Markers: Observe your systems and your humans
Honeycomb provides a powerful tool to ask questions about your systems, but your systems and users aren’t the only agents for chaos in your organization....
Event Foo: Moar Context Better Events
This guest post from Mark McBride of Turbine Labs is the fifth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. As a...
Event Foo: Designing for Results
This guest post from Matt Klein of Lyft is the fourth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. Event based tracing,...
Event Foo: Constructing a Coherent Narrative
This guest post from Colin Curtin of Good Eggs is the third in our series on the how, why, and what of events. On Event...
Build Observable Systems
What should you log? When your systems break, it’s great to be able to look at what they were doing just before they broke. A...
Event Foo: A Series of Unfortunate/Incredible Events
Good technical intuition is one of the things that defines a good senior engineer. And unpacking that intuition is the most valuable teaching tool. By...
Introducing Derived Columns
We’re excited to introduce derived columns! Derived columns let you run queries based on the value of an expression that’s computed from the columns in...
Filtering in Context: Get Your Investigation On
File under: little things that go a long way. By popular demand, right click and filter! Stay in context Filtering via right click keeps you...
Stacked Graphs in Honeycomb!
The most common visualization for time series data is the line graph. Seeing each group as an independent line can make it very easy to...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 4: Check Before You Change
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as...
ES7 await/async and superagent
TL;DR await/async are awesome, and you should use them instead of callbacks wherever you can (which is everywhere.) Async functions for ECMAScript is a stage...