Sharing Context Across Space and Time: Honeycomb for Teams
When Charity and I started pitching Honeycomb, we had a “bit” we would do, on the importance of building for teams: I’d identify her as the {Kafka, Mongo, insert tech-of-the-moment here} expert on the…
Chad Malchow, VP Sales Joins Honeycomb
Welcome to the Hive & Observability Community. Though it may ultimately be remembered for a multitude of other things, for us at Honeycomb, 2019 was the Year of Observability. Observability grew from a misunderstood…
Honeycomb Begins Another Chapter with a New Funding Round
It’s an exciting time here at Honeycomb HQ—today, we’re thrilled to announce our recent fundraise led by Scale Venture Partners, and to welcome Ariel Tseitlin to our board. On the first day of 2016,…
Reflections on Monitorama 2019
This year was my third in a row attending (and now speaking at!) Monitorama. Because the organizers do a great job of turning introverts into extroverts for three days straight, it’s always a fun…
Orient Yourself Instantly with a New Homepage Experience
Honeycomb has always been about flexibility, power, and speed — and about working with your data in a way that other vendors say is impossible. But now Honeycomb is also about being easier than…
Level Up With Derived Columns: Basic Comparisons
When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just how many different ways folks could use…
Get Observability for Your Mobile Apps with Honeycomb
If you think about it, mobile apps are among the production services most in need of real observability: nearly countless hardware platforms and operating systems in combination with your app’s code result in a…
Development at Honeycomb: Crossing the Observability Bridge to Production
For years, the “DevOps” community has felt focused on one main idea: what if we pushed our ops folks to do more development? To automate their work and write more code? That’s cool—and it’s…
Troubleshooting in Honeycomb: Choose Your Own Adventure
When debugging, there’s often not a single right answer or path to follow. More often than not, two teammates will find themselves producing two different sets of Honeycomb queries, following different routes, yet still…
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb Part 8: A Bee’s Life
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 7: Measure twice, cut once: How we made our queries 50% faster…with data. To understand how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb at a high…