Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector
The OpenTelemetry Collector is an exceptional solution for proxying and enhancing telemetry, but it’s also great for generating telemetry from machines too. In this post,...
Get the Big Picture: Learn How to Visually Debug Your Systems with Service Map—Now Available in Sandbox
Honeycomb’s Service Map gives you the unique capability to filter by both services and traces so you can generate maps that isolate very specific areas...
Autocatalytic Adoption: Harnessing Patterns to Promote Honeycomb in Your Organization
When an organization signs up for Honeycomb at the Enterprise account level, part of their support package is an assigned Technical Customer Success Manager. As...
Your Data Just Got a Facelift: Introducing Honeycomb’s Data Visualization Updates
Over the past few months, we've been hard at work modernizing Honeycomb’s data visualizations to address consistency issues, confusing displays, access to settings, and to...
Surface and Confirm Buggy Patterns in Your Logs Without Slow Search
Incidents happen. What matters is how they’re handled. Most organizations have a strategy in place that starts with log searches—and logs/log searching are great, but...
Honeycomb, Meet Terraform
The best mechanism to combat proliferation of uncontrolled resources is to use Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to create a common set of things that everyone...
Jack Henry Incorporates BubbleUp and Honeycomb’s New Service Map to Quickly Debug Issues and Get Ahead of Customer Latency
We sat down with user Zach McCoy, Principal Staff Engineer at Jack Henry, in a recent technical session and learned more about how they are...
Counting Forest Fires: Incident Response Metrics
There are limits to what individuals or teams on the ground can do, and while counting fires or their acreage can be useful to know...
Authors’ Cut Spark Notes Edition: Jumpstart Your Observability Journey
George Miranda, Liz Fong-Jones, and Charity Majors, held a series of live discussions called the Authors’ Cut to bring core concepts of the book to...
3 Easy Ways to Get Started With Distributed Tracing
We’re here to show you three ways you can jumpstart a distributed tracing effort, starting small and expanding as it makes sense. These examples involve...
Author’s Cut—A Sample of Sampling, and a Whole Lot of Observability at Scale
In this post, we’re moving from the foundations of observability to things that become critical when you start practicing observability at scale. Tools like sampling...
Happy o11ydays!
As 2022 draws to a close, the Honeycomb team is getting ready to take some time to recharge our collective batteries and get ready for...
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...