LoginLevel 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…
Honeycomb Meets Slack: a Love Story
Like many of you, we at Honeycomb spend lots of time in Slack. And like many of you, we find that debugging is not a solo activity—instead, it’s a collaborative activity within the team….
Save Useful Queries with Honeycomb Playlists
Update: this feature is now called Boards but functions the same way–check out “Sharing Honeycomb queries is even better with Boards” for the details Here at the Hive, we’ve been hard at work on…
Tell me more, nginx
When the cool kids talk about interesting log data, no one seems to want to talk about nginx. Web servers are the workhorses of the internet, reliable and battle-hardened, but the logs are standard…
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-End Failures
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 2: Migrating API Versions. At Honeycomb, one of our foremost concerns (in our product as well as our customers’) is reliability. To…
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 trying to explore data or debug problems; the second…