Slicing Up—and Iterating on—SLOs
One of the main pieces of advice about Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is that they should focus on the user experience. Invariably, this leads to...
Intro to o11ycast: A Human Perspective on the Role of Observability
Customer Success Engineer Emily Ashley describes her experience listening to the o11ycast backlog as part of her onboarding, and why the podcast is a great...
SRE + Honeycomb: Observability for Service Reliability
As a Customer Advocate, I talk to a lot of prospective Honeycomb users who want to understand how observability fits into their existing Site Reliability...
Interview with Honeycomb Engineer Chris Toshok: Dogfooding OpenTelemetry
We often get questions about the difference between using our Beeline SDKs compared with other integrations, especially OpenTelemetry (abbreviated "OTel"). That’s why the team decided...
Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020
Every once in a while, teams or systems hit an inflection point where enough things change at once and the pattern of incidents shifts. We...
Getting Started With the Honeycomb OpenTelemetry Tutorial
Honeycomb allows you to send in data from a variety of sources. The steps to get there are a choose-your-own-adventure path and the choices to...
Incident Report: Investigating an Incident That's Already Resolved
Summary On the 23rd of April, we discovered that an incident had occurred approximately one week earlier. On April 16, for approximately 1.5 hours we...
All Aboard! Set Your Team Up for Honeycomb Success
Thank you so much to all who attended Raw & Real Ep. 5 "All Aboard! Bring Your Team Together," and to any who take the...
Spread the Love: Appreciating Our Pollinators Community
Have you heard the buzz about observability with Honeycomb 🐝? It’s the best tool on the market for observing your systems in real time to...
Bees Working Together: How ecobee’s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb
At ecobee, adopting Honeycomb started as a grassroots effort. Engineers signed up for the free tier and quickly started sharing insights with teammates. When it...
HoneyByte: Get a Taste for Sampling
Honeycomb's event-based pricing model is pretty simple: we only care about how many events you send. For teams running workloads at scale, the question becomes:...
Updates to the Java Beeline: Sweeter Than Ever Before
We’ve released some improvements to our Java Beeline library! Allow me to share all the interesting new features. Hot topics: Spring Boot Sleuth Starter, JDBC...
Dogfooding for Deploys: How Honeycomb Builds Better Builds with Observability
Observability changes the way you understand and interact with your applications in production. Beyond knowing what’s happening in prod, observability is also a compass that...