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....
What Is Honeycomb’s ROI? Forrester’s Study on the Benefits of Observability
Register for the webinar and download the full study to see and apply Forrester’s financial model to determine the observability ROI for your organization. Many...
Honeycomb Is All-In on OpenTelemetry
OpenTelemetry (or “OTel”) helps you get your instrumentation started quickly, and it helps you get the most out of that telemetry data by providing flexible...
Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store
Honeycomb is known for its incredibly fast performance: you can sift through billions of rows, comparing high-cardinality data across thousands of fields, and get fast...
Tale of the Beagle (Or It Doesn’t Scale—Except When It Does)
If there’s one thing folks working in internet services love saying, it’s: Yeah, sure, but that won’t scale. It’s an easy complaint to make, but...
How Vanguard used Observability to Accelerate and De-risk their Cloud Migration
Rich Anakor, chief solutions architect at Vanguard, is on a small team with a big goal: Give Vanguard customers a better experience by enabling internal...
Improving Our Typography to Optimize the Honeycomb User Experience
This is the second post in our series about Lattice, Honeycomb’s new design system and how we’re applying a user-centric design philosophy to our product. ...
How Slack Transformed Their CI With Tracing
Slack experienced meteoric growth between 2017 and 2020—but that level of growth came with growing pains. In his talk at the 2021 o11ycon+hnycon, Frank Chen...
Shipping on a Spent Error Budget
Modern software services are expected to be highly available, and running a service with minimal interruptions requires a certain amount of reliability-focused engineering work. At...
Designing Honeycomb for Our Users
You might have noticed some visual changes happening in Honeycomb lately. Colors, typography, icons, and some features have started to look a bit different. While...
Data Availability Isn’t Observability
But it’s better than nothing... Most of the industry is racing to adopt better observability practices, and they’re discovering lots of power in being able...
The State of Observability in 2021
Observability adoption has increased as more companies seek to understand how their applications behave in production and quickly identify and resolve problems. Our second annual...
A New Approach to Metrics
Today at o11ycon+hnycon—right now, actually, if you’re reading this blog when it was posted—we’re announcing several new Honeycomb features during the keynote. Our industry and...