A CoPE’s Duty: Indexing on Prod
Building a center of production excellence (CoPE) starts with indexing on production. Here’s why. Odds are that a software engineer today is really focused on...
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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...
NS1 Implements Honeycomb to Democratize Their Code and Spark Customer Joy
The line from observability to customer joy is straighter than you think. We recently learned this from NS1, a managed DNS provider and Honeycomb customer,...
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...