LoginOur First Outage
Dear honeycomb users, On Saturday, Aug 19th, we experienced a service outage for all customers. This was our first-ever outage, even though we’ve had users in production for almost exactly one year, and paying…
Event Foo: A Series of Unfortunate/Incredible Events
Good technical intuition is one of the things that defines a good senior engineer. And unpacking that intuition is the most valuable teaching tool. By making your implicit assumptions and experiences explicit, others can…
Lies My Parents Told Me (About Logs)
Lots of us still believe some pretty silly things about logs. Most of these things used to be true! Some of them never really were. Sometimes they are “true enough” to get you a…
Ben Explains Things: how your nginx logs can magically turn query strings into columns
If you’ve ever corresponded with us over email or Intercom, chances are you’ve chatted with Ben Hartshorne. Sometimes we see him send off pearls of wisdom and we think “damn! why is this buried…
Is Honeycomb a monitoring tool?
You may notice that we don’t talk about “monitoring” much, and that’s because we don’t really think of monitoring as what we do, even though it kind of is. Traditional monitoring relies heavily on…
Instrumentation: What does ‘uptime’ mean?
This is the second post in our second week on instrumentation. Want more? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! Everybody talks about uptime, and any SLA…
Instrumentation: A Series
Good morning! Over the next couple of weeks we are going to be hosting a series of posts here on instrumentation. It started, as most trouble does, on Twitter. pro tip: if you think…
The Very Long And Exhaustive Guide To Getting Events Into Honeycomb No Matter How Big Or Small, In Any Language Or From Any Log File
How do you get events in to Honeycomb? This gets confusing for lots of people. Especially when you look at all the gobs of documentation and don’t know where to start. But all you…
Honeycomb FAQ in 140 Chars: Getting Started
Welcome! This will be a semi-regular series, where we answer frequently asked questions in short, digestible bites. Or if you prefer long philosophical essays about the future of observability, go here. Ten short questions…
Honeycomb Signups Are Back! (With New & Improved Storage Support)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, some of you may remember signing up for Honeycomb access. (Okay, it was probably sometime in August.) We were astonished by the response, by…