Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020
Every once in a while, teams or systems hit an inflection point where enough things change at once and the pattern of incidents shifts. We found ourselves at an inflection point like that last week.
Understand Your AWS Cost & Usage with Honeycomb
AWS bills are notoriously complicated, and the Amazon Cost Explorer doesn’t always make it easy to understand exactly where your money is going. When we embarked on our journey to reduce our AWS bill,…
Explore RubyGems data with Honeycomb
Our new RubyGems.org public dataset is now available — use it to analyze global download traffic of all gems hosted on RubyGems! About RubyGems.org RubyGems.org is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service. Gem creators…
Announcing Query Descriptions and Query Builder UI Updates
This week we’re shipping a few changes to our Query Builder interface. While they may appear small, they are the first steps in a larger plan that will help you more easily share your…
Level Up With Derived Columns: Understanding Screen Size (With Basic Arithmetic)
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 them. We…
Now with more Write Keys
Sometimes one Write Key per Team just isn’t enough. If you ever need to roll your key without dropping events, want separate keys per environment, or have other fancy ideas that involve multiple keys,…
Instrumenting browser page loads at Honeycomb
Update: We now have a browser js guide with practical tips on how to send browser data to Honeycomb. “Nines don’t matter if users aren’t happy” – my boss As web applications have grown…