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...
Errors Got You Down? Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry are Here to Help
It’s 5:00 pm on a Friday. You’re wrapping up work, ready to head into the weekend, when one of your high-value customers Slacks you that...
Feature Focus: April 2023
You know the old saying, I’m sure: “April deploys bring May joys.” Okay, maybe it doesn’t go exactly like that, but after reading what we’ve...
Observability, Meet Natural Language Querying with Query Assistant
Engineers know best. No machine or tool will ever match the context and capacity that engineers have to make judgment calls about what a system...
Our Favorite #chArt
Heatmaps are a beautiful thing. So are charts. Even better is that sometimes, they end up producing unintentional—or intentional, in the case of our happy...
Observable Frontends: the State of OpenTelemetry in the Browser
The modern standard for observability in backend systems is: distributed traces with OpenTelemetry, plus dynamic aggregations over these events. This works very well in the...
Should Every Incident Get a Retro?
At a recent training session, Jeli spent a great deal of time covering incident retrospectives and what makes an incident worthy of studying. My colleague...
Alerting on the User Experience
When your alerts cover systems owned by different teams, who should be on call? We get this question a lot when talking about SLOs. We...
Honeycomb’s Deployment Protection Rule for GitHub Actions
Honeycomb's Deployment Protection Rule for GitHub Actions quickly enables canary deployments by letting you use Honeycomb query results to prevent deploying to your next target...
Achieving Great Dynamic Sampling with Refinery
Refinery, Honeycomb’s tail-based dynamic sampling proxy, often makes sampling feel like magic. This applies especially to dynamic sampling, because it ensures that interesting and unique...
OpenTelemetry Roundup for Kubecon EU
We’re in Amsterdam for the week of Kubecon EU. Come by our booth to learn more about how you can gain complete observability into your...
Does OpenTelemetry in .NET Cause Performance Degradation?
Contrary to Betteridge’s Law of Tabloid Headlines, the answer to the question, "does OpenTelemetry in .NET cause performance degradation?" is yes, but context is important. I...
Feature Focus: March 2023
Spring has sprung, and the bees have been busy. Let’s have a look at what’s new in Honeycomb at the close of March....