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How many events and datasets have nested JSON?
May 23, 2017
Ben Hartshorne

Ben Hartshorne

How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 4: Check Before You Change

This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as smoothly as possible to minimize surprise on the part…

Debugging
Dogfooding
Instrumentation
Observability
Software Engineering
GIF: Recording of inspecting end-to-end results
January 20, 2017
Christine Yen

Christine Yen

How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-End Failures

At Honeycomb, one of our foremost concerns (in our product as well as our customers’) is reliability. To that end, we have end-to-end (e2e) checks that run each minute, write a single data point…

Debugging
Dogfooding
Observability
Operations
Screenshot: Datasets by client version
August 18, 2016
Ben Hartshorne

Ben Hartshorne

How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 2: Migrating API Versions

Continued from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 1: The Long Tail. We recently released a new version of our API. As scarred veterans of building and supporting APIs, we made sure to retain backwards…

Connectors & Integrations
Debugging
Dogfooding
Operations
Screenshot: Get Baseline Distribution
August 9, 2016
Christine Yen

Christine Yen

How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 1: The Long Tail

This post is the first in our series of “dogfooding” posts. At Honeycomb, we dogfood everything: we try to solve all our own problems using our own service. And like any young company, we’re…

Connectors & Integrations
Databases
Dogfooding
Operations