OpenTelemetry Is Not “Three Pillars”
OpenTelemetry is a big, big project. It’s so big, in fact, that it can be hard to know what part you’re talking about when you’re...
Vendor Switching With OpenTelemetry (OTel)
You might already know that OpenTelemetry is the future of instrumentation. It's an open-source and vendor-neutral instrumentation framework that frees you from the trap of...
The Magic of Metrics—and How It Can Burn You
As product developers, our responsibility continues beyond shipping code. To keep our software running, we need to notice whether it’s working in production. To make...
How Time Series Databases Work—and Where They Don't
In my previous post, we explored why Honeycomb is implemented as a distributed column store. Just as interesting to consider, though, is why Honeycomb is...
Honeycomb Differentiators Series: SLOs That Tell the Whole Story
In the recent past, most engineering teams had a vague notion of what Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) were—mainly things that...
Announcing General Availability of the Honeycomb Query Data API
The Query Data API is a Honeycomb Enterprise feature. With a Honeycomb Enterprise account, you can use this API today. Head over to our API...
The Blog Is Dead; Long Live the Blog
Ever since the very beginning, Honeycomb has poured a lot of heart and soul into our blog. We take pride in knowing it isn’t just...
Understanding Lambda Sleep Cycles With CONCURRENCY
CONCURRENCY is now enabled for all customers. See our docs page for information about how it works and how to use it effectively. Questions or...
Observability: The 5-Year Retrospective
Two years ago, I wrote a long retrospective of observability for its third anniversary. It includes a history of instrumentation and telemetry, a detailed explanation of the...
How Refinery Helps With Sampling Complex Event Data
Sampling is the practice of extracting a subset of data from a dataset to make conclusions about that larger dataset. It’s far from a perfect...
Metrics now generally available in Honeycomb
Join us for a live tour & Q&A session on Honeycomb Metrics. Ready to get hands-on? Honeycomb Metrics is already included in Enterprise subscriptions. Existing...
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...