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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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...
HoneyByte: Test Out Refinery Yourself!
This HoneyByte walks through how to get Refinery running locally to try out different configuration options and sampling methods....
Honeycomb Welcomes New VP of Product
I’m happy to announce that Megan Gleason, formerly Head of Product at Honeycomb, has been promoted to VP of Product. Prior to Honeycomb, Megan was...
Refine Your Observability Experience at Scale
Today, we announced that Refinery is now generally available. With Refinery, it’s now easy to highlight the critical debugging data you need and to stop...
Sweetening Your Honey
Are you looking for a better way to troubleshoot, debug, and really see and understand what weird behavior is happening in production? Service-level objectives (SLOs)...
Show Your Query You Love It By Naming It
Honeycomb is all about collaboration: We believe that observability is a team sport, and we want to give you as many tools to help your...
On Not Being a Cog in the Machine
This is my first week here as the first dedicated SRE for Honeycomb, and in a welcoming gesture, I was asked if I wanted to...
Honeycomb Raises $20M to Define the Future of Observability
I'm delighted to announce that Honeycomb has raised $20M in Series B funding, led by e.ventures Growth, with participation from existing investors Scale Venture Partners,...
Discord Bot Part 2: More Observability
This guest blog post from Chris Gardner is part two of his series on using Honeycomb while developing his Discord bot. It was originally posted...
Discord Bot Part 1: Getting started the right way
This is a guest blog post from Chris Gardner, originally posted on his personal blog. I’ve recently started working on a new project to build...