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…
Share a Bit More Easily: Public Permalinks on Honeycomb
Knowledge sharing and collaboration (over data, queries, and debugging expertise of all stripes) are near and dear to our hearts—and we’re happy to announce one more small step towards improving this experience! Until recently,…
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…
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 constrained when trying to explore data or debug problems….
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 of the phrase. The second can be found here….
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 1: The Long Tail
This post is the first in our series of “dogfooding” posts. At Honeycomb, we dogfood everything: we try to solve all our own problems using our own service. And like any young company, we’re…