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...
How to Trial Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry
Insightful proof-of-concepts with a tool can be difficult to undertake due to the demands on valuable resources: time, energy, and people. With a task as...
Collecting Kubernetes Data Using OpenTelemetry
Running a Kubernetes cluster isn’t easy. With all the benefits come complexities and unknowns. In order to truly understand your Kubernetes cluster and all the...
What Is a Telemetry Pipeline?
In a simple deployment, an application will emit spans, metrics, and logs which will be sent to api.honeycomb.io and show up in charts. This works...
Errors Got You Down? Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry are Here to Help
It’s 5:00 pm on a Friday. You’re wrapping up work, ready to head into the weekend, when one of your high-value customers Slacks you that...
OpenTelemetry Roundup for Kubecon EU
We’re in Amsterdam for the week of Kubecon EU. Come by our booth to learn more about how you can gain complete observability into your...
Does OpenTelemetry in .NET Cause Performance Degradation?
Contrary to Betteridge’s Law of Tabloid Headlines, the answer to the question, "does OpenTelemetry in .NET cause performance degradation?" is yes, but context is important. I...
OpenTelemetry 2022 Holiday Goodie Bag
We here at Honeycomb really like OpenTelemetry and goodie bags, so we have a nice little OpenTelemetry-flavored holiday goodie bag to share with you before...
Monitoring Cloud Database Costs with OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb
In the last few years, the usage of databases that charge by request, query, or insert—rather than by provisioned compute infrastructure (e.g., CPU, RAM, etc.)—has...
5-Star OTel: OpenTelemetry Best Practices
Recently, Honeycomb held a roundtable discussion (available on demand) with Camal Cakar, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Jimdo; Pierre Lacerte, Director of Software Development at...
Import Datadog Traces Into Honeycomb
Getting existing telemetry into Honeycomb just got easier! With the release of the Datadog APM Receiver, you can send your Datadog traces to the OpenTelemetry...
Iterating on an OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment in Kubernetes
When you want to direct your observability data in a uniform fashion, you want to run an OpenTelemetry collector. If you have a Kubernetes cluster...
Get More Out of OpenTelemetry With Honeycomb's Latest Updates
Just a few short months ago, we talked about a bunch of updates to Honeycomb’s support for OpenTelemetry. To the surprise of no one, we’ve...
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: Three Companies Check Into OTel Observability
Learn how Jimdo, Upgrade, and Campspot benefited from OpenTelemetry, whether in improved performance, or by avoiding vendor lock-in....
Running the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps
In this post, we’ll look at how to host the OpenTelemetry Collector in Azure Container Apps. There are a few gotchas with how it’s deployed,...