The Very Long And Exhaustive Guide To Getting Events Into Honeycomb No Matter How Big Or Small, In Any Language Or From Any Log File
How do you get events in to Honeycomb? This gets confusing for lots of people. Especially when you look at all the gobs of documentation and don’t know where to start. But all you…
The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 2, the “aggregated”
This is the second of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, your flexibility is tightly constrained when trying to explore data or debug problems….
The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 1, the “Pre”
This is the first of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics, each corresponding to one of the “pre”, “aggregated”, and “metrics” parts of the phrase. The second can be found here….
Honeycomb FAQ in 140 Chars: Getting Started
Welcome! This will be a semi-regular series, where we answer frequently asked questions in short, digestible bites. Or if you prefer long philosophical essays about the future of observability, go here. Ten short questions…
Announcing Native Ruby Support for Honeycomb
Today we’re open sourcing our SDK for Ruby, so you can gain the same sort of insight into the behavior of your Ruby apps & services as people are already experiencing with Go, Python,…
Update to Go SDK – Efficient Sampling
Here at Honeycomb we believe the best approach to handling high volume traffic is through sampling. As services scale, we want to continue to be able to inspect events with rich detail and context….
Nylas Guest Post: Ghosts in the WSGI Machine
This post is by Christine Spang, co-founder and CTO at Nylas, where they are building a better way to do email. They have a hybrid system of existing graphite and new Honeycomb analytics, and…
Honeycomb Signups Are Back! (With New & Improved Storage Support)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, some of you may remember signing up for Honeycomb access. (Okay, it was probably sometime in August.) We were astonished by the response, by…
The MySQL Slow Query Log, AWS Golang SDK, RDS and You
Did you know you can do fun things with the MySQL slow query log, using the nothing but the AWS golang SDK for RDS? It’s true! In order to let you submit RDS logs…
MySQL and Honeycomb: My First 10 Minutes
As part of the process of building our RDS connector for Honeycomb, we ran it on our own database logs. A few neat things came out of the first 10 minutes of looking at…