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LoginObservability Is About Confidence
Observability is important to understand what’s happening in production. But carving out the time to add instrumentation to a codebase is daunting, and often treated...
What Do Developers Need to Know About Kubernetes, Anyway?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: you just pushed and deployed your latest change to production, and it’s rolling out to your Kubernetes...
Simplify OpenTelemetry Pipelines with Headers Setter
In telemetry jargon, a pipeline is a directed acyclic graph (DAG) of nodes that carry emitted signals from an application to a backend. In an...
Introducing Honeycomb for Kubernetes: Bridging the Divide Between Applications and Infrastructure
In our continuous journey to support teams grappling with the complexities of Kubernetes environments, we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Honeycomb for Kubernetes, a...
How to Avoid Paying for Honeycomb
You probably know that we have a generous free plan that allows you to send 20 million events per month. This is enough for many...
Effortless Engineering: Quick Tips for Crafting Prompts
Large Language Models (LLMs) are all the rage in software development, and for good reason: they provide crucial opportunities to positively enhance our software. At...
Start with Traces, not with Logs: How Honeycomb Helped Massdriver Reduce Alert Fatigue
Before Massdriver, Dave worked in product engineering where he was constantly bogged down with DevOps toil. He spent his time doing everything except what he...
OpenTelemetry For Humans
Who is software for? It’s an interesting question, because there’s an obvious answer. It’s for the users, right? If your job is to write software,...
What Happens to DevOps when the Kubernetes Adrenaline Rush Ends?
Kubernetes has been around for nearly 10 years now. In the past five years, we’ve seen a drastic increase in adoption by engineering teams of...
A Vicious Cycle: Data Hidden Behind Lock and Key
Understanding production has historically been reserved for software developers and engineers. After all, those folks are the ones building, maintaining, and fixing everything they deliver...
So We Shipped an AI Product. Did it Work?
Like many companies, earlier this year we saw an opportunity with LLMs and quickly (but thoughtfully) started building a capability. About a month later, we...
What Is a Feature Flag? Best Practices and Use Cases
Do you want to build software faster and release it more often without the risks of negatively impacting your user experience? Imagine a world where...
Rescue Struggling Pods from Scratch
Containers are an amazing technology. They provide huge benefits and create useful constraints for distributing software. Golang-based software doesn’t need a container in the same...