How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
In last week’s piece, we talked about some of the factors that are driving costs up, both good and bad, and about whether your observability...
Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value
We’re excited to share that Honeycomb has completed our first-ever acquisition: we’re joining forces with Grit, bringing aboard not only a strong team but also...
Observability: It's Every Engineer’s Job, Not Just Ops’ Problem
Observability is way more about software engineering than it is about operations. Operators are users of observability data for monitoring and alerting on systems. They’ll...
How Does ‘Vibe Coding’ Work With Observability?
You can’t throw a rock without hitting an online discussion about ‘vibe coding,’ so I figured I’d add some signal to the noise and discuss...
The Buzz on Honeycomb Academy
At Honeycomb, we believe that observability should be accessible, effective, and transformative. That’s why our customer education team is thrilled to introduce Honeycomb Academy, a...
Enabling Design System Observability Using Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we’re actively growing our design system, Lattice, to ensure accessibility, optimize performance, and establish consistent design patterns across our product. One metric we...
Better CloudWatch Metrics in Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Collector
CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code....
AI for Software Engineering is Just Another “Paradigm Shift”
How many of you started with technologies you still use exactly the same way today? Even if you’re a master Lisp/Clojure developer, you’ve still evolved,...
Building AI-Ready Infrastructure for the Enterprise
Last week marked the inaugural HumanX conference, a convening of leaders, technologists, policy makers, and media, all brought together to discuss the state of AI...
So, What’s the Difference Between Observability and Monitoring?
Observability and monitoring are not about gathering different data—they differ in their purpose, but share the same data....
LLMs Are Weird Computers
The common definition of a computer is a programmable machine that stores, retrieves, and processes data. I would argue that ChatGPT already fits this definition,...
Generating Calculated Fields From Natural Language
f you've been using Honeycomb for a bit, you know that Calculated Fields (otherwise known as derived columns) are a powerful way to transform your...
Does AI Help Write Better Software, or Just… More Code?
As software teams race to integrate AI into their development workflows, we need to ask ourselves: are AI-powered tools actually making software better?...