The fastest, most direct route to instrumented code: a Honeycomb Beeline
If you’re feeling too busy or overwhelmed to instrument your code, we are here for you. We've talked many times about the value of instrumentation,...
Live on the Edge with Honeycomb and CloudFront
Here at Honeycomb, we know that you can get big benefits quickly by starting with observability at the edge. No, not that Edge. The other...
New Honeycomb Integrations for PostgreSQL
We’re excited to announce that you can now use honeytail and rdslogs to send your Postgres query logs to Honeycomb. Honeycomb helps you answer the...
Istio, Envoy, and Honeycomb
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...
Using the Golang Pprof Web UI to Debug Memory Usage
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...
Announcing the Honeycomb AWS Elastic Load Balancer Integration
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...
Honeycomb <3 Kubernetes Observability
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,...
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...
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...
Why Honeycomb? Black Swans, Unknown-Unknowns, and the Glorious Future of Doom
Hello friends! We need to talk – about Honeycomb, you, and the future. We’ve built this thing to help ourselves and one another deal with...
Enriching Nginx Logs with request_time, Server Data, and Other Goodies
How can you make your nginx logs more awesome? Nginx has some fantastic data hiding in its log_format spec, but oddly enough, most of it...
Discovering and Exploring Web Latency Spikes
Last week, I got a signup invite for Honeycomb. My consulting business has a website management platform with modest but steady traffic, about 30k req/day....
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 2: Migrating API Versions
Continued from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 1: The Long Tail. We recently released a new version of our API. As scarred veterans of building...
Honeycomb's Open Source Connectors
We’re happy to announce 3 open sourced components to help you get your data into Honeycomb - 2 libraries and a log tailing utility. We...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 1: The Long Tail
This post is the first in our series of “dogfooding” posts. At Honeycomb, we dogfood everything: we try to solve all our own problems using...