Troubleshooting CORS Errors in Offsite API Calls
In this article, I’ll clear up the confusion around Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), specifically discussing preflight requests, which are the bane of engineers everywhere....
The Least Worst Online Conference Ever
I am sick of online events. I can barely rouse myself to give a shit about one more virtual conference. They all start to feel...
Nine Reasons to Attend o11ycon+hnycon
You’ve probably seen the announcement about our upcoming annual conference, o11ycon+hnycon, happening June 9–10. If you’re still not registered, here’s a list of nine reasons...
Easily Debug Your AWS Lambda Functions With Honeycomb
With the Honeycomb extension for AWS Lambda, you no longer need to make your Lambda functions Honeycomb-aware. Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS...
Learn About the Future of Shipping Software at o11ycon+hnycon
Have you registered for o11ycon+hnycon yet? If not, now’s the time! This highly interactive virtual event is happening June 9–10 and designed to connect you...
ICYMI: How Honeycomb Can Help You Achieve the Deployment Part of CI/CD
In case you missed it, this webinar includes code walkthroughs that help you to add observability to your pipelines (using a free Honeycomb account!) so...
6 Steps to Getting Started With Observability
During my office hours, I frequently get asked for practical tips on getting started with observability. Often it’s from folks on teams who are already...
Announcing New Honeycomb Management API
Starting today, Honeycomb's Management API is generally available to all Honeycomb users. The Honeycomb Management API is a set of endpoints that lets you programmatically...
Lessons Learned From the Migration to Confluent Kafka
Over the last few months, Honeycomb’s platform team migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. Our migration to this newer...
o11ycon+hnycon Call for Presentations
In case you missed it, Honeycomb is gearing up for our conference, o11ycon. Based on your feedback, we’re also adding a new day to that...
One Year of Graviton2 at Honeycomb
A year ago, we wrote about our experiences as early adopters of Graviton2, and how we were able to see 30% price-performance improvements on one...
Uniting Tracing and Logs With OpenTelemetry Span Events
The current landscape of what our customers are dealing with in monitoring and observability can be a bit of a mess. For one thing, there...
Event Latency: What It Is and Why You Should Care
Recently, we added a new derived column function to Honeycomb, INGEST_TIMESTAMP(), which can help customers debug event latency and/or inaccurate timestamps. A meaningful minority of...