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Chris Toshok
Honeycomb provides a powerful tool to ask questions about your systems, but your systems and users aren’t the only agents for chaos in your organization. Changes to your infrastructure, be they automated or manual,…
Guest Blogger
This guest post from Mark McBride of Turbine Labs is the fifth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. As a systems engineer, an undervalued part of your job is…
This guest post from Matt Klein of Lyft is the fourth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. Event based tracing, logging, and debugging are very powerful tools for distributed…
This guest post from Colin Curtin of Good Eggs is the third in our series on the how, why, and what of events. On Event Construction I like to think of it as switching…
Charity Majors
Good technical intuition is one of the things that defines a good senior engineer. And unpacking that intuition is the most valuable teaching tool. By making your implicit assumptions and experiences explicit, others can…
Sam Stokes
What should you log? When your systems break, it’s great to be able to look at what they were doing just before they broke. A log is a common solution. But hands up if…
Eben Freeman
We’re excited to introduce derived columns! Derived columns let you run queries based on the value of an expression that’s computed from the columns in an event, making it easier to answer questions such…
File under: little things that go a long way. By popular demand, right click and filter! Stay in context Filtering via right click keeps you in context of your investigation. For example: when looking…
The most common visualization for time series data is the line graph. Seeing each group as an independent line can make it very easy to see what’s going on relative to other lines, but…
Ben Hartshorne
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as smoothly as possible to minimize surprise on the part…
TL;DR await/async are awesome, and you should use them instead of callbacks wherever you can (which is everywhere.) Async functions for ECMAScript is a stage 3 (“candidate”) proposal for inclusion in the next version…
Lots of us still believe some pretty silly things about logs. Most of these things used to be true! Some of them never really were. Sometimes they are “true enough” to get you a…
Aneel Lakhani
Many many of you have been asking when we’ll be “launched”, in “production”, taking “money”, or “GA”. Well, here you go! 🙂 A big THANKS to all our early users, our first paying customers,…
Peter Tuhtan
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…
Christine Yen
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…
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…
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…
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”)…
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…
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…
