LoginInstrumenting Lambda with Traces: A Complete Example in Python
We’re big fans of AWS Lambda at Honeycomb. As you may have read, we recently made some major improvements to our storage engine by leveraging Lambda to process more data in less time. Making…
A Culture of Observability Helps Engineers Hit the Spot (Instance)
At Honeycomb, we’re big fans of AWS Spot Instances. During a recent bill reduction exercise, we found significant savings in running our API service on Spot, and now look to use it wherever we…
All Together Now: Better Debugging With Multiple Visualizations
“Nines don’t matter when users aren’t happy” is something you may have heard a time or two from folks here at Honeycomb. We often emphasize the fact that while your system can look healthy…
Instrument Your Python App Automatically With The Honeycomb Beeline for Python
We’ve been on a roll this year with Beelines, our integrations for quick, easy, and automagic instrumentation of your apps. You may have already seen our Node.js, Ruby, and Go beelines – today, we’re excited…
Honeycomb goes Serverless: Send your app data without running agents
Serverless apps are growing in popularity, thanks to tools like AWS API Gateway and Lambda, and a growing number of powerful frameworks that simplify development and deployment. Complex applications are still complex, however, and…
Diving into Kubernetes clusters with Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we’re excited about Kubernetes. In fact, we’re in the early stages of moving some of our services to k8s. Tools like kops have made getting started with k8s easier than ever. But…