How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 6: Instrumenting a Production Service
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 5: The Correlations Are Not What They Seem. In a recent blog post, I talked about what sorts of things should go…
Event Foo: What Should I Add to an Event?
When we’re talking with people about how they should start using Honeycomb, many ask for guidance about what should go into an event. Though there are longer posts on this blog about what it…
Dynamic Sampling in Honeytail
A while ago I wrote a three part series on sampling, covering an introduction, some simple straight forward ways to do it, and some ideas for fancy implementations. I’m happy to say that that…
Reflections on Monitorama 2017: From the Metrics We Love to the Events We Need
There were a bunch of talks at Monitorama 2017 that could be summed up as “Let me show you how I built this behemoth of a metrics system, so I could safely handle billions…
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 4: Check Before You Change
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as smoothly as possible to minimize surprise on the part…
Instrumenting High Volume Services: Part 3
This is the last of three posts focusing on sampling as a part of your toolbox for handling services that generate large amounts of instrumentation data. The first one was an introduction to sampling…
Instrumenting High Volume Services: Part 2
This is the second of three posts focusing on sampling as a part of your toolbox for handling services that generate large amounts of instrumentation data. The first one was an introduction to sampling….
Instrumenting High Volume Services: Part 1
This is the first of three posts focusing on sampling as a part of your toolbox for handling services that generate large amounts of instrumentation data. Recording tons of data about every request coming…
Honeycomb Triggers – Alert on your Data
We’re happy to announce the launch of Honeycomb Triggers—a method to get notifications when the data you send in to Honeycomb crosses configured thresholds. We’d like to show off how to use Triggers with…
Update to Go SDK – Efficient Sampling
Here at Honeycomb we believe the best approach to handling high volume traffic is through sampling. As services scale, we want to continue to be able to inspect events with rich detail and context….