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...
Instrumentation: system calls: an amazing interface for instrumentation
When you’re debugging, there are two basic ways you can poke at something. You can: create new instrumentation (like “adding print statements”) use existing instrumentation...
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...
Instrumentation: Instrumenting HTTP Services
Welcome to the second week of our blog post series on instrumentation, curated by Julia and Charity. This week will focus more on operational and...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-End Failures
At Honeycomb, one of our foremost concerns (in our product as well as our customers’) is reliability. To that end, we have end-to-end (e2e) checks...
Instrumentation: Worst case performance matters
This is the fifth in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or...
Instrumentation: Measuring Capacity Through Utilization
This is the second in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out yesterday’s piece on the first four things you measure....
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...
Instrumentation: The First Four Things You Measure
Note: this is the first in a series of guest posts about best practices and stories around instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts...
The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 3, the "metrics"
This is the third of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, you’re tightly constrained when...
The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 2, the "aggregated"
This is the second of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, your flexibility is tightly...
The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 1, the "Pre"
This is the first of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics, each corresponding to one of the “pre”, “aggregated”, and “metrics” parts...
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 MySQL Slow Query Log, AWS Golang SDK, RDS and You
Did you know you can do fun things with the MySQL slow query log, using the nothing but the AWS golang SDK for RDS? It’s...
MySQL and Honeycomb: My First 10 Minutes
As part of the process of building our RDS connector for Honeycomb, we ran it on our own database logs. A few neat things came...