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LoginFeature Focus: September 2022
Feature Focus: September 2022. Here's a look at improvements we've made to Honeycomb in September, including: updates to a buuunch of APIs, new integrations, and...
Send a Test Span Through an OpenTelemetry Collector
The scenario: you want to see distributed traces, maybe for your web app. You’ve set up an OpenTelemetry collector to receive OTLP traces in JSON...
Honeycomb Play: Test Drive Honeycomb Without Signup or Setup
Honeycomb Play is an interactive sandbox that lets users explore Honeycomb’s data-enriched UI through a guided scenario. The hands-on experience takes a deep dive into...
Authors' Cut—Not-So-Distant Early Warning: Making the Move to Observability-Driven Development
Observability is about understanding systems, which means more than just production. Moving from logs to tracing and showing causality can be done locally, as well....
An Engineer’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities
If you let all the power drift over to the engineering managers, pretty soon it doesn’t look so great to be an engineer. Now you...
Ask Miss O11y: What Should An "Observability Team" Do?
People use “observability team” as a catchall basket for all kinds of things these days—from cutting-edge tech to truly heinous hacks. Eh, it is what...
Tracking Core Web Vitals with Honeycomb and Vercel
Google’s Core Web Vitals (CWV) are used to rank the performance of mobile sites or pages. It’s easy to see when your CWV scores are...
Engineers New to Honeycomb, What Did You First Notice About How We Do Things Here?
We’ve wondered, in the past, what new engineers think about how we do things at Honeycomb. This time, we asked! Meet Elliott and Reid, two...
Adding Code Tags to Your OpenTelemetry Spans
One of the reasons that OpenTelemetry is great at doing this is that a lot of the common attributes you may find on a span...
“Why Are My Tests So Slow?” A List of Likely Suspects, Anti-Patterns, and Unresolved Personal Trauma
If you get CI/CD right, a lot of other critical functions, behaviors, and intuitions align to be comfortably successful and correct with minimal effort. If...
Ask Miss O11y: My Manager Won't Let Me Spend Any Time Instrumenting My Code
In the same way as the business is likely ok with you writing developer-based tests (unit, automation, integration), instrumentation is the same. The conversation we...
Building a Resilient System: Our Journey to Observability at Intercom
At Intercom, we focus on customer experience above all—our service’s availability and performance is our top priority. That requires a strong culture of observability across...
Authors' Cut—Debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, and What to Build vs Buy
In this blog, we’ll dive into debugging with the Core Analysis Loop, the functional requirements for a backend datastore that make this possible, and whether...