Troubleshooting CORS Errors in Offsite API Calls
In this article, I’ll clear up the confusion around Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), specifically discussing preflight requests, which are the bane of engineers everywhere....
OpenTelemetry Logs, OpenTelemetry Go, and the Road Ahead
We’ve got a lot of OpenTelemetry-flavored honey to send your way, ranging from OpenTelemetry SDK distribution updates to protocol support. We now support OpenTelemetry logs,...
Dashboards Can Be More Than Just Expensive TV
Someone once described dashboards to me as “expensive TV for software engineers.” At first, I stood there quietly shocked—dashboards had informed many root cause analyses...
Authors’ Cut—Actionable SLOs Based on What Matters Most
SLOs—or Service Level Objectives—can be pretty powerful. They provide a safety net that helps teams identify and fix issues before they reach unacceptable levels and...
Monitoring Unit Tests with OpenTelemetry in .NET
In this post, we’ll look at how you can use OpenTelemetry to monitor your unit tests and send that data to Honeycomb to visualize. It’s...
An Engineering Manager's Bill of Rights (and Responsibilities)
So many of the best and most promising managers I know have left management roles for senior IC roles since 2018, and as someone who...
Send a Test Span Through an OpenTelemetry Collector
The scenario: you want to see distributed traces, maybe for your web app. You’ve set up an OpenTelemetry collector to receive OTLP traces in JSON...
Honeycomb Sandbox: Test Drive Honeycomb Without Signup or Setup
Honeycomb Play is an interactive sandbox that lets users explore Honeycomb’s data-enriched UI through a guided scenario. The hands-on experience takes a deep dive into...
Authors' Cut—Not-So-Distant Early Warning: Making the Move to Observability-Driven Development
Observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production. Moving from logs to tracing and showing causality can be done locally, as well....
An Engineer’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
If you let all the power drift over to the engineering managers, pretty soon it doesn’t look so great to be an engineer. Now you...
Ask Miss O11y: What Should An "Observability Team" Do?
People use “observability team” as a catchall basket for all kinds of things these days—from cutting-edge tech to truly heinous hacks. Eh, it is what...
Tracking Core Web Vitals with Honeycomb and Vercel
Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV) are used to rank the performance of mobile sites or pages. It’s easy to see when your CWV scores are...
Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?
We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. This time, we asked! Meet Elliott and Reid, two...