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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Ask Miss O11y: Baggage in OTel
Miss O11y is delighted to welcome our newest band member: Martin Thwaites! Martin has been a member of the Honeycomb user community practically since its...
Why UX Designers Don’t Feel Valued—and Why This Is a Problem for Your Business
It’s time we had a real conversation about why UX designers everywhere are still unhappy, why that elusive “seat at the table” feels so impossibly...
Ask Miss O11y: Logs vs. Traces
Tracing looks like a lot of work. We already have logs. Why bother adding traces? Ah, good question! TL;DR: Trace instead of log. Traces show...
The power of asking questions
This is a guest post by Vlad Ionescu. Vlad Ionescu jokingly describes himself as a "Professional mistake avoider" which is a better way of saying...
OnCallogy Sessions
Being on call is challenging. It’s signing up to be operating complex services in a totally interruptible manner, at all hours of the day or...
Ask Miss O11y: Pls ELI5 TLAs like PRO, SRE, and SLOs!
Dear Miss O11y, I'm confused by all of the Three Letter Acronyms (TLAs) that have started popping up lately. This week, I got an email...
Top 5 Takeaways From GDC 2022
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is a yearly event that brings together leading brands in the gaming industry to talk about trends in development and...
Honeycomb Pro: Now With Metrics & SLOs
Honeycomb Pro is about to get even better. Starting today, all Pro accounts have access to Honeycomb Metrics and two Service Level Objectives (SLOs), previously...
A Better Environment for Observability, at Your Service
We’ve made some big changes under the hood at Honeycomb to give you better control over how you put your apps data to work—we’ve expanded...
Ask Miss O11y: Do I Need Observability If My Stack Is Boring?
Observability came out of microservices and cloud-native, right? If you have a simpler architecture, does o11y matter?” — this question came up during recent office...
Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Distro for Java reaches 1.0 release
Today, the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Distribution for Java reaches a major milestone with a 1.0 release. This is the first Honeycomb OTel Distro to come out...
startSpan vs. startActiveSpan
TL;DR: startSpan is easier and measures a duration. Use it if your work won’t create any subspans. startActiveSpan requires that you pass a callback for...