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...
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....
Monitoring Unit Tests with OpenTelemetry in .NET
In this post, we’ll look at how you can use OpenTelemetry to monitor your unit tests and send that data to Honeycomb to visualize. It’s...
Infrastructure Observability with Resource Events
You may have seen the Honeycomb white paper on metrics, and want to use the power of Honeycomb with metrics. Sending infrastructure metrics data to...
HoneyByte: Kubernetes + Honeycomb
The new Honeycomb Kubernetes agent is out! This post describes how infrastructure metrics contribute to observability, and then walks you through the steps to start...
Getting Metrics Into Honeycomb
You can & should send metrics to Honeycomb! But you'll likely replace 95% of those with structured events. How does that work?...
SRE + Honeycomb: Observability for Service Reliability
As a Customer Advocate, I talk to a lot of prospective Honeycomb users who want to understand how observability fits into their existing Site Reliability...
"Hot-take" on 3 Popular Open Source Tools & The Observability Landscape
New eGuide takes a closer look at Prometheus, ELK and Jaeger: Open source tooling has its benefits. No licensing costs and you’re free to download,...
Reflections on Monitorama 2019
This year was my third in a row attending (and now speaking at!) Monitorama. Because the organizers do a great job of turning introverts into...
Welcome (to) Home
Our latest product update features an intuitive home (landing) page that orients users with a quick, real-time view into what's happening right now in your...
Testing in Production: Why You Should Never Stop Doing It
Testing in production has gotten a bad rap—despite the fact that we all do it, all the time. This is probably because we associate it...
Observability: What's in a Name?
“Is observability just monitoring with another name?” “Observability: we changed the word because developers don’t like monitoring.” There’s been a lot of hilarious snark about...
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....
Is Honeycomb a monitoring tool?
You may notice that we don’t talk about “monitoring” much, and that’s because we don’t really think of monitoring as what we do, even though...
Instrumentation: system calls: an amazing interface for instrumentation
When you’re debugging, there are two basic ways you can poke at something. You can: create new instrumentation (like “adding print statements”) use existing instrumentation...