LoginHoneycomb Customer Profile: Airtime
We recently connected with Honeycomb users over at Airtime, a new social video platform for iOS, Android, and desktop. Like many companies using Honeycomb, Airtime relies on a complex system of infrastructure and a…
Ben Explains Things: how your nginx logs can magically turn query strings into columns
If you’ve ever corresponded with us over email or Intercom, chances are you’ve chatted with Ben Hartshorne. Sometimes we see him send off pearls of wisdom and we think “damn! why is this buried…
Save Useful Queries with Honeycomb Playlists
Update: this feature is now called Boards but functions the same way–check out “Sharing Honeycomb queries is even better with Boards” for the details Here at the Hive, we’ve been hard at work on…
Instrumenting High Volume Services: Part 3
This is the last of three posts focusing on sampling as a part of your toolbox for handling services that generate large amounts of instrumentation data. The first one was an introduction to sampling…
Instrumenting High Volume Services: Part 2
This is the second of three posts focusing on sampling as a part of your toolbox for handling services that generate large amounts of instrumentation data. The first one was an introduction to sampling….
Instrumenting High Volume Services: Part 1
This is the first of three posts focusing on sampling as a part of your toolbox for handling services that generate large amounts of instrumentation data. Recording tons of data about every request coming…
Event-Driven Instrumentation in Go is Easy and Fun
One of many things I like about Go is how easy it is to instrument code. The built-in expvar package and third-party libraries such as rcrowley/go-metrics are delightfully simple to use. But metrics aren’t…
Tell me more, nginx
When the cool kids talk about interesting log data, no one seems to want to talk about nginx. Web servers are the workhorses of the internet, reliable and battle-hardened, but the logs are standard…
Is Honeycomb a monitoring tool?
You may notice that we don’t talk about “monitoring” much, and that’s because we don’t really think of monitoring as what we do, even though it kind of is. Traditional monitoring relies heavily on…
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…