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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5-Star OTel: OpenTelemetry Best Practices
Recently, Honeycomb held a roundtable discussion (available on demand) with Camal Cakar, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Jimdo; Pierre Lacerte, Director of Software Development at...
Introducing Honeycomb Service Map: A Dynamic, Interactive, and Actionable View of Your Entire Environment
Today, we're announcing the launch of Honeycomb Service Map. This isn't your grandparent's version of a service map. This feature reimagines what it is that...
New Honeycomb Features Raise the Bar for What Observability Should Do for You
As long as humans have written software, we’ve needed to understand why our expectations (the logic we thought we wrote) don’t match reality (the logic...
Announcing New GitHub Actions + Honeycomb Integration Guide
If you build or maintain code in GitHub, the Honeycomb Buildevents Action can help you optimize the performance of your build pipelines in GitHub Actions....
Import Datadog Traces Into Honeycomb
Getting existing telemetry into Honeycomb just got easier! With the release of the Datadog APM Receiver, you can send your Datadog traces to the OpenTelemetry...
Introducing PrivateLink Support for Enterprise
Network topology can get very complicated in the cloud, especially when you’re sending data to external SaaS providers. You will likely need to configure gateways...
Iterating on an OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment in Kubernetes
When you want to direct your observability data in a uniform fashion, you want to run an OpenTelemetry collector. If you have a Kubernetes cluster...
Find and Fix Bottlenecks in Your Gradle Builds With OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb
Today, I’d like to share with you a new community-contributed integration that helps you optimize and debug your Gradle builds. This new Gradle plugin is...
Incident Review: Shepherd Cache Delays
In this incident review, we’ll cover the outage from September 8th, 2022, where our ingest system went down repeatedly and caused interruptions for over eight...
Debugging Just Got Faster and Easier With New Enhancements to BubbleUp
We’re thrilled to share that we’ve made significant enhancements to BubbleUp that will enable users to BubbleUp from more parts of the Honeycomb UI beyond...
Get More Out of OpenTelemetry With Honeycomb's Latest Updates
Just a few short months ago, we talked about a bunch of updates to Honeycomb’s support for OpenTelemetry. To the surprise of no one, we’ve...
Authors’ Cut—Gear up! Exploring the Broader Observability Ecosystem of Cloud-Native, DevOps, and SRE
You know that old adage about not seeing the forest for the trees? In our Authors’ Cut series, we’ve been looking at the trees that...