All Aboard! Set Your Team Up for Honeycomb Success
You’ve instrumented an application with our Beeline or perhaps with OpenTelemetry, and you’ve been blown away by seeing traces of your app, or BubbleUps that point out a customer in pain. You get it! And now you want all your teammates to feel the same excitement you do, and you want your management bought in on SLOs.
Incident Report: Investigating an Incident That’s Already Resolved
On the 23rd of April, we discovered that an incident had occurred approximately one week earlier. On April 16, for approximately 1.5 hours we rejected approximately 10% of event traffic to our API hosts. The incident went unnoticed for around a week.
Spread the Love: Appreciating Our Pollinators Community
Have you heard the buzz about observability with Honeycomb 🐝? It’s the best tool on the market for observing your systems in real time to reduce toil and delight users. But don’t listen to us, listen to our kickass community of “Pollinators”–this blog post is dedicated to them 💖
Bees Working Together: How ecobee’s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb
At ecobee, adopting Honeycomb started as a grassroots effort. Engineers signed up for the free tier and quickly started sharing insights with teammates. When it came time for ecobee to make the “build vs. buy” decision for observability tooling, sticking with Honeycomb was the clear choice.
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.
Updates to the Java Beeline: Sweeter Than Ever Before
We’ve released some improvements to our Java Beeline library! Allow me to share all the interesting new features. Hot topics: Spring Boot Sleuth Starter, JDBC auto-instrumentation, Simplified Beeline Builder, W3C and AWS trace header propagation.
Dogfooding for Deploys: How Honeycomb Builds Better Builds with Observability
Observability changes the way you understand and interact with your applications in production. Beyond knowing what’s happening in prod, observability is also a compass that helps you discover what’s happening on the way to…
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….