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...
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....
The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding
The future of observability has never been more exciting, and this latest round ensures we can continue to invest—with conviction—in improving the lives of software...
Generalists vs. Specialists: Figuring Out Your Path
Last month, I had the opportunity to join Jen Dary on her podcast, Be Plucky. The conversation was great, and we covered a lot of...
Twelve-Factor Apps and Modern Observability
The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a go-to guide for people building microservices. In its time, it presented a step change in how we think about...
Ask Miss O11y: Is There a Beginner’s Guide On How to Add Observability to Your Applications?
Dear Miss O11y, I want to make my microservices more observable. Currently, I only have logs. I’ll add metrics soon, but I’m not really sure...
How Do We Cultivate the End User Community Within Cloud-Native Projects?
The open source community talks a lot about the problem of aligning incentives. If you’re not familiar with the discourse, most of this conversation so...
How We Define SRE Work, as a Team
The SRE team is now four engineers and a manager, and we are involved in all sorts of things across the organization, across all sorts...
Feature Focus: Winter Edition ❄️
It’s been a minute since our last Feature Focus, and we have a bit of catching up to do! I’m happy to report we’ll resume...
Deploys Are the ✨WRONG✨ Way to Change User Experience
I'm no stranger to ranting about deploys. But there's one thing I haven't sufficiently ranted about yet, which is this: Deploying software is a terrible,...
How Coveo Reduced User Latency and Mean Time to Resolution with Honeycomb Observability
When you’re just getting started with observability, a proof of concept (POC) can be exactly what you need to see the positive impact of this...
Ask Miss O11y: Error: missing ‘x-honeycomb-dataset’ header
Your API Key (in the x-honeycomb-team header) tells Honeycomb where to put your data. It specifies a team and an environment. Then, Honeycomb figures out...
Caring for Complex Systems: We Can Do This
When we work at it, professionals are pretty good at analysis. We can break down a simple system, look at its parts and their relations,...