Tracing the Line: Understanding Logs vs. Traces
In the software space, we spend a lot of time defining the terminology that describes our roles, implementations, and ways of working. These terms help...
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Relational Fields: Query Even More Relationships in Your Traces
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Tame Your Telemetry: Introducing the Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline
Honeycomb Values, 2018
This past week was a big one for us here at the hive–we completed our quarterly review/planning process, and while we were all together we...
Live on the Edge with Honeycomb and CloudFront
Here at Honeycomb, we know that you can get big benefits quickly by starting with observability at the edge. No, not that Edge. The other...
New Custom Regex Log Ingestion
Unstructured text logs are so last decade, but sometimes you have to deal with them because they aren’t actually all that prehistoric in human years…or...
New Honeycomb Integrations for PostgreSQL
We’re excited to announce that you can now use honeytail and rdslogs to send your Postgres query logs to Honeycomb. Honeycomb helps you answer the...
The Price is Right
Here at the hive, we’re working on something that isn’t code or new features(!), but is a big part of our business notwithstanding: figuring out...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb Part 8: A Bee's Life
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 7: Measure twice, cut once: How we made our queries 50% faster…with data....
Best Practices for Observability
Observability has been getting a lot of attention recently. What started out as a fairly obscure technical term, dragged from the dusty annals of control...
Instrumenting browser page loads at Honeycomb
Update: We now have a browser js guide with practical tips on how to send browser data to Honeycomb. “Nines don’t matter if users aren’t...
Metrics: not the observability droids you're looking for
I went to Monitorama last year for my first time. It was great; I had a terrific time. But I couldn’t help but notice how...
Sharing Honeycomb queries is even better with Boards
Hello Honeycomb users! I’m here to tell you about some updates to a feature some of you may already be using. We’ve renamed playlists to...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 7: Measure twice, cut once: How we made our queries 50% faster...with data
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 6: Instrumenting a Production Service . The entire value proposition of Honeycomb’s columnar...
Bitten by a Kafka Bug - Postmortem
Dearest honeycombers, Yesterday, on Tuesday, Oct 17th, we experienced a partial service outage for some customers, and a small amount of data was dropped during...