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What Are Traces? A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Tracing

In this post, we’ll describe what traces are, how they work, and the value traces provide in observability, helping stakeholders understand their systems and delivering...

Sampling   Observability  

Honeycomb Users Are Living in the Future, Part 1: Sampling

When we talk to new Honeycomb users, a few things stand out as sounding downright magical. Sometimes we'll hear, "Wow, is that a new feature?"...

Observability   Culture   Conferences & Meetups  

Is Your Observability Strategy Boardroom-Ready?

At LDX3 in London last week, two roundtables I hosted with engineering leaders confirmed what many of us are starting to feel: observability isn’t just...

OpenTelemetry   LLMs  

Can Claude Code Observe Its Own Code?

One of the great things about OpenTelemetry is that it's a standard, and standards tend to proliferate. I was excited to see Claude Code add...

Product Updates   OpenTelemetry   News & Announcements  

Observability Without Tradeoffs: Introducing Powerful New Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Features

With this release, you can more easily build and reconfigure telemetry pipelines and sample safely with the ability to easily pull full-fidelity data from your...

Software Engineering   Conferences & Meetups  

Honeycomb Observability Day London: A Jam-Packed Day of Great Talks

On May 15th, 2025, Honeycomb hosted Observability Day (or O11yDay) in the London financial district. The skies were clear and the weather was wonderful and...

LLMs  

Tales From the Trench: Building With LLMs and Honeycomb

AI discourse these days is all over the place. Depending on who you talk to, AI’s are absolute flash-in-the-pan junk, or they’re the best thing...

Observability   LLMs  

It's The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)

In a really broad sense, the history of observability tools over the past couple of decades have been about a pretty simple concept: how do...

Software Engineering   Observability   LLMs  

Beyond Shift Left: Engineering Leaders Increase Speed and Resilience With Observability

We recently had the privilege of hosting several industry experts and technology executives across platform strategy, SRE, and engineering enablement for breakfast at our Observability...

Software Engineering   Observability   Monitoring  

Dashboards, or Launchpads?

I have a personal vendetta against “dashboards.” Not because they're not useful—I actually think they’re extremely useful—but rather because they're generally built with the wrong...

OpenTelemetry   Observability   Frontend  

Introducing Native Mobile Support in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability

You shipped your latest release. You tested it on emulators, QA devices, and the latest OS versions. But now it’s live and running on thousands...

OpenTelemetry   Frontend  

Understanding Your App’s Health With Core Mobile Vitals

There are certain important metrics that every mobile app has in common. At Honeycomb, we have surveyed these metrics across iOS and Android, and have...

Software Engineering   Culture  

Gotta Go Slow

I anticipated this would be a challenging time and that I would be exhausted. So, the plan became: do all the demanding things, take my...

Tracing   OpenTelemetry  

Unleash SaaS Data With the Webhookevent Receiver

There are many vendors, Honeycomb included, where actions on the application can emit a web request that goes to another service for coordination or tracking...

Tracing   OpenTelemetry   Frontend  

Visualizing Session Flow With Honeycomb

I want to know what users are doing in my application. A distributed trace is the best way to show the data flow of one...

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