Our Favorite #chArt
By Rox Williams | Last modified on April 28, 2023Heatmaps are a beautiful thing. So are charts. Even better is that sometimes, they end up producing unintentionalâor intentional, in the case of our happy o11ydays experimentâart.
Hereâs a collection of our favorite #chArt from our Pollinators Slack community. Today would be a great time to join if youâre into good conversation about OpenTelemetry, Honeycomb-y stuff, SLOs, and obviously, art.
The raincloud

Pierre from Honeycomb posted this rain cloud.Â
Itâs raining just over your house

This reminds me of that scene in The Truman Show where the rain cloud literally follows Truman. Thank you Irving from Honeycomb for this submission!

Sentience

âI think my heatmap is trying to become sentient and talk to me.â - Jean-Philippe Belanger. Not ominous or scary whatsoever. Nope.
Mountainsâso peaceful

âWe had this nice mountain scene the other dayâ - Sean Hood.
Abstract Art

Iâm pretty sure I made something similar when I first got a computer and discovered Microsoft Paint. Submitted by Blake Irvin.
Porg? Porg.

If we put a mouth on this one, it looks like a Porg!

Submitted by Ryan King.
Predator

Another great one from Blake Irvin! Can you see it? Just needs the creepy mouth.
Waves

Otherworldly ocean waves. From Kesha Mykhailov: âOur front-end app versions in productionâI think itâs beautiful.â
We think itâs beautiful too.
Haystack Rock

âHey look, itâs Haystack Rock, but flipped!â - Irving from Honeycomb.
The Cylon


Thank you to Oli Lane for this one!
Line ChArt

Another shot from Irving. Swooning over the colors!
Honeyception

Jessitron created the Honeycomb logo inside a heatmap and it is SO GOOD.
FORCE LIGHTNING
Finally, my personal favorite, left without comment (except for: thank you Reid).

Thatâs it for this year!
Hope you enjoyed this gallery of fine chArt. Weâll hopefully do this on a yearly basis, so if you want to participate and send some charts/heatmaps over, join us in our Pollinators Slack #chArt channel.
In the meantime, donât forget that over the holidays, we released the happy o11ydays repo where you can generate your own cool wintery heatmaps!
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