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overwhelmed-bee
May 10, 2018

The fastest, most direct route to instrumented code: a Honeycomb Beeline

If you’re feeling too busy or overwhelmed to instrument your code, we are here for you. We’ve talked many times about the value of instrumentation, and how it’s necessary to instrument your code properly…

Connectors & Integrations
Instrumentation
Observability
Product Updates
query timing graph
October 19, 2017

How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 7: Measure twice, cut once: How we made our queries 50% faster…with data

This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 6: Instrumenting a Production Service . The entire value proposition of Honeycomb’s columnar store is speed of queries, for instance: Examining over…

Databases
Dogfooding
rainbow-colored heatmap
September 21, 2017

Heatmaps Are The New Hotness*

Heatmaps are a visualization that shows the statistical distribution of the values in a dataset column over time. Each column of squares in the below graph represents a histogram over roundtrip_dur, with the color…

Product Updates
graph1
July 12, 2017

Markers: Observe your systems and your humans

Honeycomb provides a powerful tool to ask questions about your systems, but your systems and users aren’t the only agents for chaos in your organization. Changes to your infrastructure, be they automated or manual,…

Product Updates
capture2
June 22, 2017

Filtering in Context: Get Your Investigation On

File under: little things that go a long way. By popular demand, right click and filter! Stay in context Filtering via right click keeps you in context of your investigation. For example: when looking…

Product Updates
stacked
June 20, 2017

Stacked Graphs in Honeycomb!

The most common visualization for time series data is the line graph. Seeing each group as an independent line can make it very easy to see what’s going on relative to other lines, but…

Product Updates
ES7 await/async and superagent
April 20, 2017

ES7 await/async and superagent

TL;DR await/async are awesome, and you should use them instead of callbacks wherever you can (which is everywhere.) Async functions for ECMAScript is a stage 3 (“candidate”) proposal for inclusion in the next version…

Observability
Software Engineering