Why Every Engineering Team Should Embrace AWS Graviton4
Two years ago, we shared our experiences with adopting AWS Graviton3 and our enthusiasm for the future of AWS Graviton and Arm. Once again, we're...
We Did it Again: We’re a Leader in 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for APM & Observability for the Second Year in a Row
When the Gartner Magic Quadrant Report came out in 2022, we did the professional equivalent of a spit take, then cheered wildly. NOT ONLY did...
The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding
The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software...
Feature Focus: Winter Edition ❄️
It’s been a minute since our last Feature Focus, and we have a bit of catching up to do! I’m happy to report we’ll resume...
Authors’ Cut—Shifting Cultural Gears: How to Show the Business Value of Observability
How do you solve the people and culture problems that are necessary in making the shift to adopt observability practices? And once you instill those...
Authors' Cut—No More Pipeline Blues: Accelerate CI/CD with Observability
Just like any aspect of development, poor integration, invisible bottlenecks, and bugs can plague your CI/CD pipelines. And debugging them? Well, it’s complicated. To see...
Authors’ Cut—Actionable SLOs Based on What Matters Most
SLOs—or Service Level Objectives—can be pretty powerful. They provide a safety net that helps teams identify and fix issues before they reach unacceptable levels and...
Honeycomb Sandbox: Test Drive Honeycomb Without Signup or Setup
Honeycomb Play is an interactive sandbox that lets users explore Honeycomb’s data-enriched UI through a guided scenario. The hands-on experience takes a deep dive into...
Authors' Cut—Not-So-Distant Early Warning: Making the Move to Observability-Driven Development
Observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production. Moving from logs to tracing and showing causality can be done locally, as well....
Building a Resilient System: Our Journey to Observability at Intercom
At Intercom, we focus on customer experience above all—our service’s availability and performance is our top priority. That requires a strong culture of observability across...
Authors' Cut—Debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, and What to Build vs Buy
In this blog, we’ll dive into debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, the functional requirements for a backend datastore that make this possible, and whether...
How to Save on Monitoring Costs by Using Honeycomb
Are you overspending on monitoring and APM tools? Forrester’s Total Economic Impact analysis of Honeycomb identified significant ROI in customers using us to reduce spend...
Authors’ Cut—How Observability Differs from Traditional Monitoring
In this webinar based on our O'Reilly book, we go over the difference between observability and monitoring - and when to use which....
Authors' Cut—Structured Events Are the Basis of Observability
Our Author's Cut series takes a deep dive into our O’Reilly Observability Engineering book. Join us for this session on structured events....
An Observability Guide From Someone with a Precarious Grasp on the Topic
I’m Phillip, a product manager here at Honeycomb. After eleven-ish months of working on our product, I totally understand observability, right? ...Kinda? Sorta? Maybe? I'm...