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ICYMI: Honeycomb Developer Week Wrap-Up
Getting started with observability can be time consuming. It takes time to configure your apps and practice to change the way you approach troubleshooting. So...
Incident Report: The Missing Trigger Notification Emails
On November 18, between 00:50 and 00:56 UTC, an update was deployed that improved Honeycomb’s business intelligence (BI) telemetry available from our production operations environment....
HoneyByte: Using Application Metrics With Prometheus Clients
Have you ever deep dived into the sea of your tracing data, but wanted additional context around your underlying system? For instance, it may be...
Ask Miss O11y: Load Testing With Fidelity
Dear Miss O11y, My developers and I can't agree about what the right approach is for running load tests in production. Should we even be...
Tracing Makes Concurrency Bugs Easy to Spot
Today, I found a concurrency bug before I noticed it. Like, it was subtle, and so I wasn’t quite sure I saw it—maybe I hadn’t...
Ask Miss O11y: Tracing Is for Async, Too
I have a good sense of how to use traces to understand my system’s behavior within request/response cycles. What about multi-request processes? What about async...
Hone Your Observability Skills at Honeycomb Developer Week
Is the lack of time holding you back from sharpening your observability (o11y) skills? Maybe you’ve dipped your toes into o11y, but you’re not sure...
Scaling Kafka at Honeycomb
When you send telemetry into Honeycomb, our infrastructure needs to buffer your data before processing it in our "retriever" columnar storage database. For the entirety...
Ask Miss O11y: Mapping Out Your Observability Journey
Dear Miss O11y: It feels so overwhelming to get started with observability. I want to use Honeycomb, but it feels like I can't justify spending...
Ask Miss O11y: I Don't Want to Be On Call Anymore. Am I a Monster?
“Can a subject matter expert ever step down?” Have you written anything about how to solve the ‘nobody wants to be on-call as a subject matter expert...
Incident Resolution: Do You Remember, the Twenty Fires of September?
From September to early October, Honeycomb declared five public incidents. Internally, the whole month was part of a broader operational burden, where over 20 different...
Game Launches Should Be Exciting for Your Players, Not for Your LiveOps Team
This blog was co-authored by Amy Davis. The moment of launching something new at a game studio (titles, experiences, features, subscriptions) is a blockbuster moment...