Generating Calculated Fields From Natural Language
f you've been using Honeycomb for a bit, you know that Calculated Fields (otherwise known as derived columns) are a powerful way to transform your...
Does AI Help Write Better Software, or Just… More Code?
As software teams race to integrate AI into their development workflows, we need to ask ourselves: are AI-powered tools actually making software better?...
How I Code With LLMs These Days
I first started using AI coding assistants in early 2021, with an invite code from a friend who worked on the original GitHub Copilot team....
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what...
OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers
OpenTelemetry (often abbreviated as OTel) is the golden standard observability framework, allowing users to collect, process, and export telemetry data from their systems. OpenTelemetry’s framework...
OpenTelemetry Is Not “Three Pillars”
OpenTelemetry is a big, big project. It’s so big, in fact, that it can be hard to know what part you’re talking about when you’re...
Slicing Up—and Iterating on—SLOs
One of the main pieces of advice about Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is that they should focus on the user experience. Invariably, this leads to...
Wiring Up a Next.js Self-Hosted Application to Honeycomb
This blog post will get you started ingesting your Next.js application’s telemetry into Honeycomb. I’ll show you the configuration steps, how to view your traces...
Preempting Problems in a Sociotechnical System
Here at Honeycomb, we emphasize that organizations are sociotechnical systems. At a high level, that means that “wet-brained” people and the stuff they do is...
Stop Logging the Request Body!
With more and more people adopting OpenTelemetry and specifically using the tracing signal, I’ve seen an uptick in people wanting to add the entire request...
Frontend Monitoring: Deliver Seamless and Performant User Experiences
In this blog, we’ll share the fundamentals of frontend monitoring, including what you need to know about performance measurement and strategies for staying ahead of...
Why Observability 2.0 Is Such a Gamechanger
One of the hardest parts of my job is to get people to appreciate just how much of a difference Honeycomb/observability 2.0 is compared to...
Booking.com’s Journey to Enhanced Observability
Since its early startup beginnings in Amsterdam, Booking.com has redefined the travel industry, establishing itself as a premier platform for millions of travelers worldwide. With...
Catching Up With Fender: How Frontend Observability Powers Better User Experiences
For years, Fender Musical Instruments has been synonymous with iconic guitars and amplifiers. But in recent years, the company has expanded its legacy into the...
Restructuring How We Think About Alerts
Back in Alerts Are Fundamentally Messy, I made the point that the events we monitor are often fuzzy and uncertain. To make a distinction between...