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Ben Hartshorne
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 5: The Correlations Are Not What They Seem. In a recent blog post, I talked about what sorts of things should go…
Eben Freeman
Here at the hive, we’re exceedingly excited about the emerging future of the “service mesh.” After deploying a sidecar proxy such as Envoy, a service mesh will unlock a number of infrastructure benefits such…
Chris Toshok
Heatmaps are a visualization that shows the statistical distribution of the values in a dataset column over time. Each column of squares in the below graph represents a histogram over roundtrip_dur, with the color…
Charity Majors
Testing in production has gotten a bad rap—despite the fact that we all do it, all the time. This is probably because we associate it with not enough testing before production: continuous integration, unit…
Nathan LeClaire
Golang as an Observability Tool Go, for good reason, has become an incredibly popular language for everything from web applications to DevOps tools. We lean on Golang heavily here at Honeycomb, and naturally we…
Sam Stokes
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 4: Check Before You Change. Maybe you’ve heard the saying that correlation does not imply causation: just because two things changed in…
“Is observability just monitoring with another name?” “Observability: we changed the word because developers don’t like monitoring.” There’s been a lot of hilarious snark about this lately. Which is great, who doesn’t love A+…
In the modern DevOps / SRE world, one of the most important things to get a clear picture of is what’s happening in between your users and the applications that serve them. Most modern…
When we’re talking with people about how they should start using Honeycomb, many ask for guidance about what should go into an event. Though there are longer posts on this blog about what it…
Rachel Perkins
This post from new Honeycomber Rachel Perkins is the seventh in our series on the how, why, and what of events. An event is a record of something that your system did. A line…
Today we are pleased to announce the release of the new Honeycomb Quick Start to help you in your quest to become an observability master. In case you’re unfamiliar, Honeycomb is a tool to…
Introducing the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent and ksonnet integration We’re excited to release the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent. The agent provides a flexible way to aggregate, structure, and enrich events from applications running on Kubernetes, before…
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…
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…
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…
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…
