Part 2/5: Dear Software Engineers
Observability is not a thing for operations or some other team to care about. Software engineers, you are increasingly the primary owners of your own services … and this is a great thing. Developers,…
Part 1/5: Asking Better Questions
Any mature production system is likely to have hundreds of thousands if not millions of metrics, most of which never get looked at by a human. Metrics and logs are no longer human-scale, they…
Why Honeycomb? Black Swans, Unknown-Unknowns, and the Glorious Future of Doom
Hello friends! We need to talk – about Honeycomb, you, and the future. We’ve built this thing to help ourselves and one another deal with the future of software. It isn’t Yet Another Monitoring…
MongoDB and Honeycomb: My First 10 Minutes
Real-world examples An interesting side effect of the devopsification of the software industry is how many software engineers and operations engineers increasingly find ourselves in the role of “Accidental DBA,” responsible for operating, debugging,…
Enriching Nginx Logs with request_time, Server Data, and Other Goodies
How can you make your nginx logs more awesome? Nginx has some fantastic data hiding in its log_format spec, but oddly enough, most of it is not enabled by default. Here are a couple…
Guest Post: Web Latency Spikes
Intro: Our friend Issac Kelly has been working part time with us on marketing and copy. The first thing he did was set up Honeycomb for his own business. In less than 20 min,…
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…
Honeycomb’s Open Source Connectors
We’re happy to announce 3 open sourced components to help you get your data into Honeycomb – 2 libraries and a log tailing utility. We have two libraries available to make it easy to…
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…
Welcome to Honeycomb
Hello friends! It’s been about seven months since our first day of work, when we first said “hi” and asked for your feedback. We now have a new name, a real office, and the…