The Path from Unstructured Logs to Observability
Are you starting out on your journey toward observability? Do you have a mandate from management, or are you a lone warrior in the matrix?...
Understand Your AWS Cost & Usage with Honeycomb
First published in August 2019. AWS bills are notoriously complicated, and the Amazon Cost Explorer doesn’t always make it easy to understand exactly where your...
The True Cost of “Search-First” Problem-solving on Your Production Systems
The search-first problem-solving approach—meaning “open up the log search tool” (Splunk, ELK, Loggly, SumoLogic, Scalyr, etc)—is a costly and time-consuming operation during which the true...
Metric Analysis, Application Performance Monitoring, and Log Management: Where Does Honeycomb Fit In?
If you’re involved in improving the performance of your application, you’ve probably heard about application performance monitoring (APM), metric analysis, and log management. But you...
How Much Should My Observability Stack Cost?
What should one pay for observability? What should your observability stack cost? What should be in your observability stack? How much observability is enough? How...
How Are Structured Logs Different From Events?
We're all collectively trying to define observability ("o11y," pronounced "olly") these days, and, as Honeycomb is sometimes described as an event-based observability product, trying to...
Honeycomb goes Serverless: Send your app data without running agents
Serverless apps are growing in popularity, thanks to tools like AWS API Gateway and Lambda, and a growing number of powerful frameworks that simplify development...
Structured Logging and Your Team
This guest blog post from Anton Drukh of snyk.io is part of our series on structured logging. From 1 service to over 50 today We...
How to Use NLog for Structured Logging
We’re grateful for this guest post from Tim Wilde! You can find the source code for the examples he uses in his github repo. Strings...
New Custom Regex Log Ingestion
Unstructured text logs are so last decade, but sometimes you have to deal with them because they aren’t actually all that prehistoric in human years…or...
You Could Have Invented Structured Logging
Sometimes we hear from folks who are a little bit intimidated by the notion of structured logging. Some common issues: There’s no approachable library for...
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...
Lies My Parents Told Me (About Logs)
Lots of us still believe some pretty silly things about logs. Most of these things used to be true! Some of them never really were....