Share Context With Collaboration: Suggested Query Boards
Nobody knows your services/infra better than you, not even Honeycomb. If there’s one maxim for Honeycomb, it’s that context is king. Context determines the questions you can ask. The only way to make complex…
Use New Range Markers to Show The Duration of a State Change
In our world of distributed systems, state changes to your infrastructure often take some time to propagate. With a few exceptions (for example, feature flags), single point in time changes are rare. Deploys, outages,…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
Announcing Native Ruby Support for Honeycomb
Today we’re open sourcing our SDK for Ruby, so you can gain the same sort of insight into the behavior of your Ruby apps & services as people are already experiencing with Go, Python,…