Frontend Observability: A Candid Conversation With Emily Nakashima and Charity Majors
Frontend development has evolved rapidly over the past decade, but one challenge remains constant: understanding what’s happening in real-time across diverse browsers, environments, and user...
Redefining RUM: A Comparative Gap Analysis of Existing Tools
Real user monitoring (RUM) began as a straightforward approach to tracking basic web performance metrics. Focused on things like page load times and response rates,...
Using Honeycomb for Frontend Observability to Improve Honeycomb
Recently, we announced the launch of Honeycomb for Frontend Observability, our new solution that helps frontend developers move from traditional monitoring to observability. What this...
Beyond Backend: Honeycomb for Frontend Observability is Now GA
Observability has traditionally been backend-focused, but the frontend is just as hard—if not harder—to debug and has simply outgrown current monitoring tools. Engineers working with...
Debugging INP With Honeycomb for Frontend Observability
In this post, I'm going to walk through how you can use Honeycomb for Frontend Observability to debug INP, which was just promoted to a...
Understanding OpenTelemetry’s Browser Instrumentation
Recently, Honeycomb released a Web Instrumentation package built around the OpenTelemetry browser JS packages. In this post, I’ll go over what the OpenTelemetry auto-instrumentation package...
Introducing Honeycomb for Frontend Observability: Get the Data You Need for Actionable Customer Experience Improvements
Honeycomb for Frontend Observability gives frontend developers the ability to quickly identify opportunities for optimization within their web app. This starts with better OpenTelemetry instrumentation,...
Real User Monitoring With a Splash of OpenTelemetry
You're probably familiar with the concept of real user monitoring (RUM) and how it's used to monitor websites or mobile applications. If not, here's the...
Observing Core Web Vitals with OpenTelemetry: Part Two
In a previous blog post, we outlined how to set up our own auto-instrumentation to send Core Web Vitals data to Honeycomb. We recently released...
Frontend Debugging Is Bad and it Should Feel Bad
There’s a sentence that strikes fear into the heart of every frontend developer I've ever met: Users are reporting issues, and we don't know how...
A Practical Guide to Debugging Browser Performance With OpenTelemetry
So you’ve taken a look at the core web vitals for your site and… it’s not looking good. You’re overwhelmed, and you don’t know what...
Observing Core Web Vitals with OpenTelemetry
Each CWV measures a specific part of the end user experience. CWV scores can help identify gaps in web page performance. Additionally, Google uses CWV...