Event Foo: Constructing a Coherent Narrative
This guest post from Colin Curtin of Good Eggs is the third in our series on the how, why, and what of events. On Event...
Build Observable Systems
What should you log? When your systems break, it’s great to be able to look at what they were doing just before they broke. A...
Event Foo: A Series of Unfortunate/Incredible Events
Good technical intuition is one of the things that defines a good senior engineer. And unpacking that intuition is the most valuable teaching tool. By...
Introducing Derived Columns
We’re excited to introduce derived columns! Derived columns let you run queries based on the value of an expression that’s computed from the columns in...
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...
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...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 4: Check Before You Change
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as...
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...
Lies My Parents Told Me (About Logs)
Lots of us still believe some pretty silly things about logs. Most of these things used to be true! Some of them never really were....
Honeycomb Launch!
Many many of you have been asking when we’ll be “launched”, in “production”, taking “money”, or “GA”. Well, here you go! :) A big THANKS...
Honeycomb Customer Profile: Airtime
We recently connected with Honeycomb users over at Airtime, a new social video platform for iOS, Android, and desktop. Like many companies using Honeycomb, Airtime...
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...
Event-Driven Instrumentation in Go is Easy and Fun
One of many things I like about Go is how easy it is to instrument code. The built-in expvar package and third-party libraries such as...
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...
Is Honeycomb a monitoring tool?
You may notice that we don’t talk about “monitoring” much, and that’s because we don’t really think of monitoring as what we do, even though...