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A Day in the Life: Customer Success

We thought it'd be fun to give you some insights into what certain teams at Honeycomb do and how they spend their days, and who...

Debugging   Customer Stories  

Transforming Financial Services with Modern Observability: Moov's Story 

As a new company poised to transform the financial services industry with its modern money movement platform, Moov wanted an equally modern observability platform as...

OpenTelemetry   Instrumentation  

OpenTelemetry Best Practices #2 Agents, Sidecars, Collectors, Coded Instrumentation

For years, we’ve been installing what vendors have referred to as “agents” that reach into our applications and pull out useful telemetry information from them....

Observability   News & Announcements  

Focused Labs & Honeycomb: Better Together

We're excited to unveil a new collaboration with Focused Labs, a leap forward in our shared commitment to advancing modern observability practices and enhancing the...

OpenTelemetry  

OpenTelemetry Best Practices #1: Naming

Naming things, and specifically consistently naming things, is still one of the most useful pieces of work you can do in telemetry. It’s often overlooked...

Service Level Objectives   Customer Stories  

Driving Culture Change: Phorest's Observability Transformation

Phorest delivers a premier software solution that empowers their salon and spa business customers to thrive. Ensuring every engineer has access to an observability tool...

OpenTelemetry  

Sending OpenTelemetry Data From AWS Lambda to Honeycomb

In this post, Chris describes how to send OpenTelemetry (OTel) data from an AWS Lambda instance to Honeycomb....

Incident Response  

Negotiating Priorities Around Incident Investigations

There are countless challenges around incident investigations and reports. Aside from sensitive situations revolving around blame and corrections, tricky problems come up when having discussions...

OpenTelemetry   News & Announcements  

Much Ado About OpenTelemetry

There is so much good work that OpenTelemetry has done in the software industry, specifically around the domain of observability, in the last five years....

Observability   Monitoring  

APM From a Developer’s Perspective

In twenty years of software development, I did not have the privilege of being on call, of tending to my software in production. I’ve never...

Observability   Customer Stories  

Flight to Success: Birdie's DevOps Evolution Fueled by Observability Insights

Birdie’s platform is a complex software system that covers a lot of ground—from care management and rostering to HR and finance. To ensure the platform...

LLMs  

Three Properties of Data to Make LLMs Awesome

Back in May 2023, I helped launch my first bona fide feature that uses LLMs in production. It was difficult in lots of different ways,...

Software Engineering   Monitoring  

What Is Application Performance Monitoring?

Application performance monitoring, also known as APM, represents the difference between code and running software. You need the measurements in order to manage performance....

Product Updates   Instrumentation  

Safer Client-Side Instrumentation with Honeycomb's Ingest-Only API Keys

We're delighted to introduce our new Ingest API Keys, a significant step toward enabling all Honeycomb customers to manage their observability complexity simply, efficiently, and...

OpenTelemetry  

Data Sovereignty and OpenTelemetry

In today’s economic and regulatory environment, data sovereignty is increasingly top of mind for observability teams. The rules and regulations surrounding telemetry data can often...

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