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....
Adding Code Tags to Your OpenTelemetry Spans
One of the reasons that OpenTelemetry is great at doing this is that a lot of the common attributes you may find on a span...
“Why Are My Tests So Slow?” A List of Likely Suspects, Anti-Patterns, and Unresolved Personal Trauma
If you get CI/CD right, a lot of other critical functions, behaviors, and intuitions align to be comfortably successful and correct with minimal effort. If...
Ask Miss O11y: My Manager Won't Let Me Spend Any Time Instrumenting My Code
In the same way as the business is likely ok with you writing developer-based tests (unit, automation, integration), instrumentation is the same. The conversation we...
Building a Resilient System: Our Journey to Observability at Intercom
At Intercom, we focus on customer experience above all—our service’s availability and performance is our top priority. That requires a strong culture of observability across...
Authors' Cut—Debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, and What to Build vs Buy
In this blog, we’ll dive into debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, the functional requirements for a backend datastore that make this possible, and whether...
Datasets, Traces, and Spans—Oh My!
By giving an overview into datasets, traces, and spans, you’ll get a peek behind the curtain into how Honeycomb facilitates observability in the hopes of...
A to Z With Observability and OpenTelemetry
“How do I get started on instrumentation with OpenTelemetry, while also following best practices for the long-term?” This article is all about taking you from...
What Are Some Useful Things to Look for Right Away When You Get Data into Honeycomb?
Here's what some of our customers had to say about Honeycomb features that they found value in right away....
Top Takeaways from Monitorama 2022
Two of our folks went to Monitorama 2022, and they gleaned a few pearls of wisdom they'd love to share with you, including an unexpected,...
On Counting Alerts
A while ago, I wrote about how we track on-call health, and I heard from various people about how “expecting to be woken up” can...
We Learn Systems by Changing Them
In the social world, there is no outside: we participate in the systems we study. I’ve noticed this in code: when I come to an...
How to Save on Monitoring Costs by Using Honeycomb
Are you overspending on monitoring and APM tools? Forrester’s Total Economic Impact analysis of Honeycomb identified significant ROI in customers using us to reduce spend...