Sending OpenTelemetry Data From AWS Lambda to Honeycomb
In this post, Chris describes how to send OpenTelemetry (OTel) data from an AWS Lambda instance to Honeycomb....
Negotiating Priorities Around Incident Investigations
There are countless challenges around incident investigations and reports. Aside from sensitive situations revolving around blame and corrections, tricky problems come up when having discussions...
Much Ado About OpenTelemetry
There is so much good work that OpenTelemetry has done in the software industry, specifically around the domain of observability, in the last five years....
APM From a Developer’s Perspective
In twenty years of software development, I did not have the privilege of being on call, of tending to my software in production. I’ve never...
Flight to Success: Birdie's DevOps Evolution Fueled by Observability Insights
Birdie’s platform is a complex software system that covers a lot of ground—from care management and rostering to HR and finance. To ensure the platform...
Three Properties of Data to Make LLMs Awesome
Back in May 2023, I helped launch my first bona fide feature that uses LLMs in production. It was difficult in lots of different ways,...
What Is Application Performance Monitoring?
Application performance monitoring, also known as APM, represents the difference between code and running software. You need the measurements in order to manage performance....
Safer Client-Side Instrumentation with Honeycomb's Ingest-Only API Keys
We're delighted to introduce our new Ingest API Keys, a significant step toward enabling all Honeycomb customers to manage their observability complexity simply, efficiently, and...
Data Sovereignty and OpenTelemetry
In today’s economic and regulatory environment, data sovereignty is increasingly top of mind for observability teams. The rules and regulations surrounding telemetry data can often...
Where Does Honeycomb Fit in the Software Development Lifecycle?
The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is always drawn as a circle. In many places I’ve worked, there’s no discernable connection between “5. Operate” and “1....
Avoid Stubbing Your Toe on Telemetry Changes
When you have questions about your software, telemetry data is there for you. Over time, you make friends with your data, learning what queries take...
Now Available: Honeycomb Launches Data Residency in Europe
At Honeycomb, we are very concerned about privacy and data sovereignty—it’s something we take very seriously, and in an effort to serve our customers better,...
The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling
The cost of services is on everybody’s mind right now, with interest rates rising, economic growth slowing, and organizational budgets increasingly feeling the pinch. But...
Alerts Are Fundamentally Messy
Good alerting hygiene consists of a few components: chasing down alert conditions, reflecting on incidents, and thinking of what makes a signal good or bad....
Effective Trace Instrumentation with Semantic Conventions
There’s plenty of literature on the mechanics of instrumenting code with OpenTelemetry and delivering it to Honeycomb. However, I’ve not found many guides on the...