The Log Monitoring Guide for Sweet Insights
Logs are more than just records. With proper log monitoring, they become the honey that sweetens observability. Observability is your ability to understand and optimize...
Solving a Murder Mystery
Bugs can remain dormant in a system for a long time, until they suddenly manifest themselves in weird and unexpected ways. The deeper in the...
New Honeycomb Integrations Let You Bubble Up Lurking AWS Issues
Today, we’re announcing the expansion of Honeycomb integrations with various AWS services. This update now covers a much wider swath of AWS services, makes it...
The Incident Retrospective Ground Rules
I joined Honeycomb as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) midway through September, and it’s been a wild ride so far. One thing I was...
Scaling Ingest With Ingest Telemetry
With the introduction of Environments & Services, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the creation of new datasets. These new datasets are smaller than ones...
Customer Story: Intercom Reduces MTTWTF With Observability and Distributed Tracing
Intercom’s mission is to build better communication between businesses and their customers. With that in mind, they began their journey away from metrics alone and...
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...
Feature Focus: October 2022
In our Feature Focus October 2022, we've updated documentation and derived columns, provided guides to make CI/CD easier, and more....
Touching Grass With SLOs
One of the things that struck me upon joining Honeycomb was the seemingly laissez-faire approach we took towards internal SLOs. From my own research (beginning...
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...
On Building a Platform Team
It may surprise you to hear, but Honeycomb doesn’t currently have a platform team. We have a platform org, and my title is Director of...
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...
Introducing Honeycomb Service Map: A Dynamic, Interactive, and Actionable View of Your Entire Environment
Today, we're announcing the launch of Honeycomb Service Map. This isn't your grandparent's version of a service map. This feature reimagines what it is that...