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June 14, 2018

How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 9: Tracing The Query Path

This post continues our long-running dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb Part 8: A Bee’s Life. To understand how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb at a high level, check out our dogfooding blog posts first — they do…

Debugging
Dogfooding
Instrumentation
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June 5, 2018

Get deeper insights with Honeycomb Tracing

We’re excited to introduce Honeycomb Tracing! Now, you can both: Visualize individual traces to deeply understand request execution, and Break down, filter, and aggregate trace data to uncover patterns, find outliers, and understand historical…

Debugging
Product Updates
query latency distribution
December 12, 2017

New Honeycomb Integrations for PostgreSQL

We’re excited to announce that you can now use honeytail and rdslogs to send your Postgres query logs to Honeycomb. Honeycomb helps you answer the following questions (and more) about your database workload: “What…

Connectors & Integrations
Product Updates
janeway says not bad!
October 17, 2017

You Could Have Invented Structured Logging

Sometimes we hear from folks who are a little bit intimidated by the notion of structured logging. Some common issues: There’s no approachable library for structured logging in my language. My logging today is…

Events
Instrumentation
Logging
Observability
Istio, Envoy, and Honeycomb
September 26, 2017

Istio, Envoy, and Honeycomb

Here at the hive, we’re exceedingly excited about the emerging future of the “service mesh.” After deploying a sidecar proxy such as Envoy, a service mesh will unlock a number of infrastructure benefits such…

Connectors & Integrations
Observability
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July 13, 2017

Honeycomb <3 Kubernetes Observability

Introducing the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent and ksonnet integration We’re excited to release the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent. The agent provides a flexible way to aggregate, structure, and enrich events from applications running on Kubernetes, before…

Connectors & Integrations
Product Updates
creating a derived column
June 27, 2017

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 an event, making it easier to answer questions such…

Product Updates
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February 16, 2017

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 rcrowley/go-metrics are delightfully simple to use. But metrics aren’t…

Instrumentation