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3 Easy Ways to Get Started With Distributed Tracing
We’re here to show you three ways you can jumpstart a distributed tracing effort, starting small and expanding as it makes sense. These examples involve...
Author’s Cut—A Sample of Sampling, and a Whole Lot of Observability at Scale
In this post, we’re moving from the foundations of observability to things that become critical when you start practicing observability at scale. Tools like sampling...
Happy o11ydays!
As 2022 draws to a close, the Honeycomb team is getting ready to take some time to recharge our collective batteries and get ready for...
OpenTelemetry 2022 Holiday Goodie Bag
We here at Honeycomb really like OpenTelemetry and goodie bags, so we have a nice little OpenTelemetry-flavored holiday goodie bag to share with you before...
NS1 Implements Honeycomb to Democratize Their Code and Spark Customer Joy
The line from observability to customer joy is straighter than you think. We recently learned this from NS1, a managed DNS provider and Honeycomb customer,...
Solving a Murder Mystery
Bugs can remain dormant in a system for a long time, until they suddenly manifest themselves in weird and unexpected ways. The deeper in the...
New Honeycomb Integrations Let You Bubble Up Lurking AWS Issues
Today, we’re announcing the expansion of Honeycomb integrations with various AWS services. This update now covers a much wider swath of AWS services, makes it...
The Incident Retrospective Ground Rules
I joined Honeycomb as a Staff Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) midway through September, and it’s been a wild ride so far. One thing I was...
Scaling Ingest With Ingest Telemetry
With the introduction of Environments & Services, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the creation of new datasets. These new datasets are smaller than ones...
Customer Story: Intercom Reduces MTTWTF With Observability and Distributed Tracing
Intercom’s mission is to build better communication between businesses and their customers. With that in mind, they began their journey away from metrics alone and...
Announcing New CircleCI + Honeycomb Integration Guide
If you’re writing software today, then you likely use a CI/CD pipeline to build and test your code before deploying it to production. Having a...
Feature Focus: October 2022
In our Feature Focus October 2022, we've updated documentation and derived columns, provided guides to make CI/CD easier, and more....