Deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector to AKS
The Collector is the focal point for telemetry inside your cluster. Instead of your containerized applications sending directly to your OpenTelemetry-capable backend (the place that...
How to Use Relational Fields: Some Nifty Use Cases
We recently introduced relational fields, a new feature that allows you to query spans based on their relationship to each other within a trace. This...
Announcing New CircleCI + Honeycomb Integration Guide
If you’re writing software today, then you likely use a CI/CD pipeline to build and test your code before deploying it to production. Having a...
Announcing New GitHub Actions + Honeycomb Integration Guide
If you build or maintain code in GitHub, the Honeycomb Buildevents Action can help you optimize the performance of your build pipelines in GitHub Actions....
Tracking Core Web Vitals with Honeycomb and Vercel
Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV) are used to rank the performance of mobile sites or pages. It’s easy to see when your CWV scores are...
A to Z With Observability and OpenTelemetry
“How do I get started on instrumentation with OpenTelemetry, while also following best practices for the long-term?” This article is all about taking you from...
Quickly Turn ALB/ELB Status Codes into an Issue-Seeking Heatmap
More often than not, as developers, when we get a report that a large customer is hitting 500 errors, there's a flurry of activity. What's...
Honeycomb Is All-In on OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry (or “OTel”) helps you get your instrumentation started quickly, and it helps you get the most out of that telemetry data by providing flexible...
Handle Unruly Outliers with Log Scale Heatmaps
We often say that Honeycomb helps you find a needle in your haystack. But how exactly is that done? This post walks you through when...