Implementing High-Cardinality Instrumentation in Frontend Apps
In speaking with frontend engineers this past year, I realized that understanding the power of wide events is a big mental shift. We’re used to...
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Level Up With Derived Columns: Bucketing Events For Comparison
When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t...
Announcing Honeycomb's Java SDK
Now Java developers can leverage Honeycomb to gain insight into the behavior of their apps and services by using an SDK similar to the ones...
There And Back Again: A Honeycomb Tracing Story
In our previous post about Honeycomb Tracing, we used tracing to better understand Honeycomb's own query path. When doing this kind of investigation, you typically have...
Level Up With Derived Columns: Understanding Screen Size (With Basic Arithmetic)
When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just...
How Are Structured Logs Different From Events?
We're all collectively trying to define observability ("o11y," pronounced "olly") these days, and, as Honeycomb is sometimes described as an event-based observability product, trying to...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 9: Tracing The Query Path
This post continues our long-running dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb Part 8: A Bee’s Life. To understand how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb at a high...
Get deeper insights with Honeycomb Tracing
We're excited to introduce Honeycomb Tracing! Now, you can both: Visualize individual traces to deeply understand request execution, and Break down, filter, and aggregate trace...
Honeycomb goes Serverless: Send your app data without running agents
Serverless apps are growing in popularity, thanks to tools like AWS API Gateway and Lambda, and a growing number of powerful frameworks that simplify development...
Build and Run a Honeycomb Query right from your URL bar with Query Template Links
Whenever you run a Honeycomb query, you're directed to the permalink for the results. Returning to this URL always supplies the same data without re-running...
Support for AWS Application Load Balancer in the Honeycomb AWS Bundle
When we announced support for ingesting AWS Elastic Load Balancer access logs to Honeycomb, one of the first follow-up requests was for us to add support for...
Instrument Your Go App In Minutes with the Honeycomb Beeline for Go
Want magical per-request instrumentation to roll effortlessly out of your Go app without even looking like you’re trying? Meet the Honeycomb Beeline for Go! Beelines automatically...
Observability into Bare Metal Provisioning with RackN
This guest blog post is from Rob Hirschfeld, Co-founder and CEO at RackN. At RackN, a core design principle is that operations should be easy...