The Core Analysis Loop, or: Heatmaps Make Analysis Better
In this blog miniseries, I’m talking about how to think about doing data analysis, the Honeycomb way. In Part I, I talked about how heatmaps help us understand how data analysis works. In Part…
Orient Yourself Instantly with a New Homepage Experience
Honeycomb has always been about flexibility, power, and speed — and about working with your data in a way that other vendors say is impossible. But now Honeycomb is also about being easier than…
Honeycomb and Rookout: An Integration That Finds the Dots to Connect
This guest blog post is by Or Weis, Co-Founder and CEO of Rookout, the Rapid Debugging Company. He’s a low-level engineer and a CybSec Expert. You probably know that Honeycomb is the most flexible observability…
How Honeycomb Has Changed the Way Travis CI Operates Their Business
This delightful guest post by Igor Wiedler was originally published on Travis CI’s blog. At Travis CI, we run over 3 million builds per week across three cloud providers with vastly different operating systems…
Heatmaps Make Ops Better
In this blog miniseries, I’d like to talk about how to think about doing data analysis “the Honeycomb way.” Welcome to part 1, where I cover what a heatmap is—and how using them can…
Level Up With Derived Columns: Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Manipulation
When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just how many different ways folks could use them. We…
Our Experience: Thundra Integration for Honeycomb
This is a guest post from Salih Kardan, Software Engineer @Thundra and Committer at Apache, formerly SRE @Opsgenie. He specializes in managing AWS services and loves to improve monitoring and observability of systems. Serverless…
Explore RubyGems data with Honeycomb
Our new RubyGems.org public dataset is now available — use it to analyze global download traffic of all gems hosted on RubyGems! About RubyGems.org RubyGems.org is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service. Gem creators…
Speeding Things Up So Your Queries Can Bee Faster
Honeycomb strives to be a fast, efficient tool; our storage back-end satisfies the median customer query in 250ms (and the P90 in 1.3 seconds). Still, every system has its limits, and customers with large…
Postmortem: RDS Clogs & Cache-Refresh Crash Loops
On Thursday, October 4, we experienced a partial API outage from 21:02-21:56 UTC (14:02-14:56 PDT). Despite some remediation work, we saw a similar (though less serious) incident again on Thursday October 11 from 15:00-16:02 UTC (8:00-9:02PDT). To implement a more permanent fix, we scheduled an emergency maintenance window which completely interrupted service on Friday Oct 12 for approximately two minutes, from 4:38-4:40 UTC (Thursday Oct 11, 21:38-21:40 PDT).