Using Honeycomb to Investigate a Redis Connection Leak
This is a guest post by Alex Vondrak, Senior Platform Engineer at true[X]. This is the story of how I used Honeycomb to troubleshoot redis/redis-rb#924 and discovered a surprising workaround. The Problem Emergent failures…
Logging tool no more: Observability sheds light on Dark’s business growth and helps their customers scale
Dark is a programming language and platform that enables building serverless backends. There’s no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. It’s a new paradigm in software delivery. As a startup, the Dark team is constantly…
A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development
The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases, then the code is improved so the tests pass….
The Raw & Real Approach to Observability
Practicing observability isn’t just about tools. It also means improving how you work together and how you share lessons across the team. Learning from each other helps everyone on your team become better engineers…
Honeycomb granted a patent to securely manage sensitive data
Pretty much every organization of any size is paying close attention to the adoption of security practices in order to manage and protect their most sensitive data, including personal identifiable information (PII), personal health…
We listened. Simpler Pricing. You’re welcome.
I’ve tackled this question before: how much should my observability stack cost? While the things in that post are true now as ever, I did end on one somewhat vague conclusion. When it came…
Unpacking Events: All the Better to Observe
At Honeycomb, we’ve been listening to your feedback. You want easier ways to predict usage and scale your observability spend with your business.
Observability: 80% Practicing in the Next 2 Years
Observability is more than tooling. Of course having the right tools in place so you can ask arbitrary questions about your environment, without having to know ahead of time what you wanted to ask,…
Take huge leaps with Honeycomb for Incident Response
As engineering teams shift from delivering services on monolithic architectures to microservices and even serverless environments, developers are no longer just responsible for creating and maintaining their code. Shared ownership has become the new…
Free as in Honey
Starting today, you can use more of Honeycomb than ever before for free. That means more teams can start building up production excellence with features that were previously only available for paid subscribers.