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HoneyByte: Test Out Refinery Yourself!
March 11, 2021

HoneyByte: Test Out Refinery Yourself!

This HoneyByte walks through how to get Refinery running locally to try out different configuration options and sampling methods.

HoneyBytes
Sampling
2020: The Year Bee-hind Us
January 5, 2021

2020: The Year Bee-hind Us

Developer Advocate Shelby Spees bookends 2020 with appreciation for her team and the community.

Culture
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October 20, 2020

A User Journey: Setting Up the Node Beeline on Lambda

Nic Wise at Tend Health recently wrote a series of blog posts exploring how they moved away from logs and metrics, toward adopting observability with Honeycomb. In that series, he shares lessons learned as…

Customer Stories
Instrumentation
OpenTelemetry Tutorial
September 3, 2020

Interview with Honeycomb Engineer Chris Toshok: Dogfooding OpenTelemetry

We often get questions about the difference between using our Beeline SDKs compared with other integrations, especially OpenTelemetry (abbreviated “OTel”). That’s why the team decided to do some integration dogfooding by instrumenting our own code with OpenTelemetry alongside existing Beeline instrumentation.

Connectors & Integrations
Dogfooding
Instrumentation
HoneyByte: Get a Taste for Sampling
July 23, 2020

HoneyByte: Get a Taste for Sampling

Honeycomb’s event-based pricing model is pretty simple: we only care about how many events you send. For teams running workloads at scale, the question becomes: are all of my events worth keeping? How can you reduce overall event volume while maintaining fidelity? This HoneyByte is all about sampling strategies you can use to lower costs without sacrificing the value of your data.

Events
HoneyBytes
Sampling
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May 12, 2020

Unpacking Events: All the Better to Observe

At Honeycomb, we believe events are the building blocks for observability. What exactly is an event? What does that mean for your team’s observability journey?

Product Updates
Tracing
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April 20, 2020

HoneyByte: Incremental Instrumentation Beyond the Beeline

“It turns out,” said Liz, “it was not a giant pile of work to start adding those rich instrumentation spans as you need them.” Liz Fong-Jones was telling dev.to’s Molly Struve about an error…

HoneyBytes
Instrumentation
Observability
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April 9, 2020

HoneyByte: Make a Beeline Toward Observability Just Like DEV’s Molly Struve

“When things broke,” Molly explained, “you’re mad scrambling—jumping from website to website to website, trying to put the pieces together.” Molly was able to use Honeycomb to fix things up: “It makes my job…

Customer Stories
HoneyBytes
Observability
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April 2, 2020

Right at Home in My New Role

(Get it? Because I’m working from home…) Hi, I’m Shelby 👋 I’m a new Developer Advocate at Honeycomb. The New Normal What a strange time to be changing jobs. I’m thrilled about my new…

Observability