SRE + Honeycomb: Observability for Service Reliability
As a Customer Advocate, I talk to a lot of prospective Honeycomb users who want to understand how observability fits into their existing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice. While I have a passing familiarity with the discipline, I wanted to learn more about what SREs do in their day-to-day work so that I’d be better able to help them determine if Honeycomb is a good fit for their needs.
Interview with Honeycomb Engineer Chris Toshok: Dogfooding OpenTelemetry
We often get questions about the difference between using our Beeline SDKs compared with other integrations, especially OpenTelemetry (abbreviated “OTel”). That’s why the team decided to do some integration dogfooding by instrumenting our own code with OpenTelemetry alongside existing Beeline instrumentation.
Get on the Right Track with Our Rails Integration!
Whether you’re starting a new Rails project and want to build observability in from the start, or you’re investing in better observability for your existing Rails service, this tutorial will help you get the most out of Honeycomb right away.
Incident Review: Meta-Review, August 2020
Every once in a while, teams or systems hit an inflection point where enough things change at once and the pattern of incidents shifts. We found ourselves at an inflection point like that last week.
From 0 to Insight with OpenTelemetry in Go
Honeycomb allows you to send in data from a variety of sources. The steps to get there are a choose-your-own-adventure path and the choices to make may not always be clear to folks new…
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.