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understanding metric analysis and apm vs logging
December 20, 2018
Nathan LeClaire

Nathan LeClaire

Metric Analysis, Application Performance Monitoring, and Log Management: Where Does Honeycomb Fit In?

If you’re involved in improving the performance of your application, you’ve probably heard about application performance monitoring (APM), metric analysis, and log management. But you might not understand what they are or the differences…

Events
Logging
Metrics
Observability
Tracing
bee-bank
December 18, 2018
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

How Much Should My Observability Stack Cost?

UPDATE: Charity has written an update on observability spend for 2025 with new figures. Read the two-part blog series here: Part 1: Is your observability a cost or an investment? Part 2: Observability cost…

Logging
Metrics
Observability
Honeycomb vs Elastic Stack
September 20, 2018
Rachel Perkins

Rachel Perkins

Honeycomb vs Elastic Stack: It’s About Priorities

If you’ve been paying attention, you know that although collecting and reviewing metrics and logs is a core part of running a stable and successful service, access to raw events and the ability to…

Metrics
News & Announcements
Observability
inigo montoya: let me explain/sum up
December 7, 2017
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

The Price is Right

Here at the hive, we’re working on something that isn’t code or new features(!), but is a big part of our business notwithstanding: figuring out the best way to help people understand how we…

Events
Metrics
1
November 28, 2017
Christine Yen

Christine Yen

How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb Part 8: A Bee’s Life

This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 7: Measure twice, cut once: How we made our queries 50% faster…with data. To understand how Honeycomb uses Honeycomb at a high…

Dogfooding
Metrics
Operations
droid running into a wall
October 24, 2017
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

Metrics: not the observability droids you’re looking for

I went to Monitorama last year for my first time. It was great; I had a terrific time. But I couldn’t help but notice how speaker after speaker in talk after talk spent time…

Metrics
Observability
Graphing a bunch of different metrics next to each other
January 6, 2017
Christine Yen

Christine Yen

The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 3, the “metrics”

This is the third of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, you’re tightly constrained when trying to explore data or debug problems; the second…

Metrics
Observability
Showing how a specific metric is incremented
December 13, 2016
Christine Yen

Christine Yen

The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 2, the “aggregated”

This is the second of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, your flexibility is tightly constrained when trying to explore data or debug problems….

Metrics
Observability
Cassandra cfstats example output
December 7, 2016
Christine Yen

Christine Yen

The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 1, the “Pre”

This is the first of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics, each corresponding to one of the “pre”, “aggregated”, and “metrics” parts of the phrase. The second can be found here….

Metrics
Observability