Introducing Honeycomb’s TCP Agent for MongoDB
We’re excited to release honeycomb-tcpagent, an efficient way to get query-level visibility into your MongoDB deployment. honeycomb-tcpagent parses TCP traffic between MongoDB clients and servers, and reconstructs queries in a friendly JSON format. Honeycomb…
Instrumentation: system calls: an amazing interface for instrumentation
When you’re debugging, there are two basic ways you can poke at something. You can: create new instrumentation (like “adding print statements”) use existing instrumentation (“look at print statements you already added”, “use Wireshark”)…
Instrumentation: What does ‘uptime’ mean?
This is the second post in our second week on instrumentation. Want more? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! Everybody talks about uptime, and any SLA…
Instrumentation: Instrumenting HTTP Services
Welcome to the second week of our blog post series on instrumentation, curated by Julia and Charity. This week will focus more on operational and practical examples; check out previous entries for awesome posts…
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-End Failures
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 2: Migrating API Versions. At Honeycomb, one of our foremost concerns (in our product as well as our customers’) is reliability. To…
Instrumentation: Worst case performance matters
This is the fifth in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! BrightRoll’s Realtime team is responsible for…
Instrumentation Is About Making People Awesome
This is the fourth in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! The nuts and bolts of metrics,…
Finite state machines make instrumentation easy
This is the third in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! There is a way to structure…
Instrumentation: Measuring Capacity Through Utilization
This is the second in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out yesterday’s piece on the first four things you measure. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! One of my…
Share a Bit More Easily: Public Permalinks on Honeycomb
Knowledge sharing and collaboration (over data, queries, and debugging expertise of all stripes) are near and dear to our hearts—and we’re happy to announce one more small step towards improving this experience! Until recently,…