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LoginAsk Miss O11y: Error: missing ‘x-honeycomb-dataset’ header
Your API Key (in the x-honeycomb-team header) tells Honeycomb where to put your data. It specifies a team and an environment. Then, Honeycomb figures out...
Caring for Complex Systems: We Can Do This
When we work at it, professionals are pretty good at analysis. We can break down a simple system, look at its parts and their relations,...
NS1 Implements Honeycomb to Democratize Their Code and Spark Customer Joy
The line from observability to customer joy is straighter than you think. We recently learned this from NS1, a managed DNS provider and Honeycomb customer,...
Iterating on an OpenTelemetry Collector Deployment in Kubernetes
When you want to direct your observability data in a uniform fashion, you want to run an OpenTelemetry collector. If you have a Kubernetes cluster...
Ask Miss O11y: How Can I Convince My Organization to Invest in Instrumenting for Observability?
"Dear Miss O11y, I’ve been following Honeycomb for a long time, and I understand where the insights from observability fit in. But larger orgs haven’t...
Send a Test Span Through an OpenTelemetry Collector
The scenario: you want to see distributed traces, maybe for your web app. You’ve set up an OpenTelemetry collector to receive OTLP traces in JSON...
We Learn Systems by Changing Them
In the social world, there is no outside: we participate in the systems we study. I’ve noticed this in code: when I come to an...
Webinar Recap: How to Avoid Being On Call With Under-Instrumented Tools
"It's expensive. It's difficult. Our APM works just fine." The three myths of observability can lead to being on call with under-instrumented tools. That's exactly...
Honeycomb Supports Service Ownership
The software industry is moving toward teams that own the services they build. This concept encloses principles and possibilities from movements toward microservices, DevOps, Agile,...
Ask Miss O11y: As a developer, how can I try out observability?
Dear Miss o11y, What's the first small thing to do in o11y that would teach me something, bring something valuable, and open the way for...
Ask Miss O11y: Logs vs. Traces
Tracing looks like a lot of work. We already have logs. Why bother adding traces? Ah, good question! TL;DR: Trace instead of log. Traces show...
startSpan vs. startActiveSpan
TL;DR: startSpan is easier and measures a duration. Use it if your work won’t create any subspans. startActiveSpan requires that you pass a callback for...
Ask Miss O11y: Making Sense of OpenTelemetry: Who’s There? The Resource.
I’m adding instrumentation code to my app. To set it up, I have to create a Resource. What does that mean? What can I do...
Ask Miss O11y: OpenTelemetry in the Front End: Tracing Across Page Load
We want to measure the time that a user waits between pushing a button and seeing their result. The examples for creating a trace span...
Ask Miss O11y: Making Sense of OpenTelemetry—Context
“What is up with the Context in OpenTelemetry? Why do I need to mess with it at all? Why, when I set a span as...