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June 14, 2022
Phillip Carter

Phillip Carter

An Observability Guide From Someone with a Precarious Grasp on the Topic

I’m Phillip, a product manager here at Honeycomb. After eleven-ish months of working on our product, I totally understand observability, right? …Kinda? Sorta? Maybe? I’m not sure—but, I have been sitting in this space…

Featured
Observability
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May 10, 2022
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

✨ The ✨ Book✨ Is ✨ Done✨

The book is done. The book is FINISHED. There will be no more writing of the book! Holy macaroni. If you think you might be sensing just a SMIDGE of relief, you wouldn’t be…

Best Practices
Observability
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April 26, 2022
Josh Levin

Josh Levin

Observability for New Teams: Part 1

Any significant shift in an organization’s software engineering culture has the potential to feel tectonic, and observability (o11y for short)—or more specifically, Observability Driven Development—is no different. Leaning into observability, which calls for tool-enhanced…

Best Practices
Observability
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February 11, 2022
Guest Blogger

Guest Blogger

ICYMI: Achieving Visibility in Your CI/CD Pipeline With Honeycomb + CircleCI

Before continuous integration came to be, setting up builds was no fun because the complexity and overhead involved in a release cycle was compounded by inflexible, manual processes. The release cycle was slow and…

Observability
Why Intuitive Debugging Has Stopped Working for You
January 3, 2022
Pete Hodgson

Pete Hodgson

Why Intuitive Debugging Has Stopped Working for You

It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. Why is that? Shouldn’t we have gotten better at this in the past two decades? There are valid reasons…

Debugging
Observability
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September 23, 2021
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

Observability: The 5-Year Retrospective

Two years ago, I wrote a long retrospective of observability for its third anniversary. It includes a history of instrumentation and telemetry, a detailed explanation of the technical spec, and why the whole “three pillars” thing…

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Observability
Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store
August 12, 2021
Alex Vondrak

Alex Vondrak

Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store

Honeycomb is known for its incredibly fast performance: you can sift through billions of rows, comparing high-cardinality data across thousands of fields, and get fast answers to your queries. And none of that is…

Databases
Observability
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June 16, 2021
George Miranda

George Miranda

The State of Observability in 2021

Observability adoption has increased as more companies seek to understand how their applications behave in production and quickly identify and resolve problems. Our second annual observability maturity report is the first that shows a…

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Observability
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May 6, 2021
Evelyn Chea

Evelyn Chea

ICYMI: How Honeycomb Can Help You Achieve the Deployment Part of CI/CD

In case you missed it, this webinar includes code walkthroughs that help you to add observability to your pipelines (using a free Honeycomb account!) so that you and your team can speed up your…

Observability
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February 9, 2021
Fred Hebert

Fred Hebert

On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

This is my first week here as the first dedicated SRE for Honeycomb, and in a welcoming gesture, I was asked if I wanted to write a blog post about my first impressions and…

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Observability
Teams & Collaboration
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December 24, 2020
George Miranda

George Miranda

Introducing the o11yday Bootcamp

Getting started with observability (o11y) is now easier than ever with the new step-by-step o11yday Bootcamp guide. Now’s a great time to try out Honeycomb, get help if you’re stuck, and pick up a…

Culture
Observability
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October 29, 2020
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

The Future of Ops Careers

For most teams, operations engineering is more necessary than ever. Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors describes what that work looks like for modern software teams, and the new responsibilities involved.

Observability
Operations
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September 22, 2020
Emily Nakashima

Emily Nakashima

Intro to o11ycast: A Human Perspective on the Role of Observability

Customer Success Engineer Emily Ashley describes her experience listening to the o11ycast backlog as part of her onboarding, and why the podcast is a great resource for anyone new to observability.

Observability
Operations
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September 8, 2020
Jenni Boyer

Jenni Boyer

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.

Monitoring
Observability
Operations
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August 6, 2020
Irving Popovetsky

Irving Popovetsky

All Aboard! Set Your Team Up for Honeycomb Success

Thank you so much to all who attended Raw & Real Ep. 5 “All Aboard! Bring Your Team Together,” and to any who take the time out of their busy days to watch the…

Connectors & Integrations
Observability
Teams & Collaboration
We love Pollinators!
July 30, 2020
Jenni Boyer

Jenni Boyer

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 💖

Customer Stories
Observability
Bees Working Together: How ecobee’s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb
July 28, 2020
Deirdre Mahon

Deirdre Mahon

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.

Customer Stories
Observability
Software Engineering
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June 30, 2020
Deirdre Mahon

Deirdre Mahon

Logging tool no more: Observability sheds light on Dark’s business growth and helps their customers scale

Dark is a programming language and platform that enables building serverless backends. There’s no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. It’s a new paradigm in software delivery. As a startup, the Dark team is constantly…

Customer Stories
Instrumentation
Observability
A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development
June 23, 2020
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development

The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases, then the code is improved so the tests pass….

Instrumentation
Observability
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May 5, 2020
Deirdre Mahon

Deirdre Mahon

Observability: 80% Practicing in the Next 2 Years

Observability is more than tooling. Of course having the right tools in place so you can ask arbitrary questions about your environment, without having to know ahead of time what you wanted to ask,…

Observability
Software Engineering