Destroy on Friday: The Big Day 🧨 A Chaos Engineering Experiment - Part 2Â
In my last blog post, I explained why we decided to destroy one third of our infrastructure in production just to see what would happen....
Deploy on Friday? How About Destroy on Friday! A Chaos Engineering Experiment - Part 1
We recently took a daring step to test and improve the reliability of the Honeycomb service: we abruptly destroyed one third of the infrastructure in...
Why Every Engineering Team Should Embrace AWS Graviton4
Two years ago, we shared our experiences with adopting AWS Graviton3 and our enthusiasm for the future of AWS Graviton and Arm. Once again, we're...
Virtualizing Our Storage Engine
Our storage engine, affectionately known as Retriever, has served us faithfully since the earliest days of Honeycomb. It’s a tool that writes data to disk...
How We Leveraged the Honeycomb Network Agent for Kubernetes to Remediate Our IMDS Security Finding
Picture this: It’s 2 p.m. and you’re sipping on coffee, happily chugging away at your daily routine work. The security team shoots you a message...
Driving Exceptional Support: Unleashing Support Power with Honeycomb
n technical support, ensuring customer satisfaction and quickly resolving issues are of utmost importance. At Honeycomb, we embrace a comprehensive approach by using our own...
How Our Love of Dogfooding Led to a Full-Scale Kubernetes MigrationÂ
When considering a migration to Kubernetes, as with any major tech upgrade or change, it’s imperative to understand the motivation for doing so. The engineering...
Developing with OpenAI and Observability
Honeycomb recently released our Query Assistant, which uses ChatGPT behind the scenes to build queries based on your natural language question. It's pretty cool. While...
Scaling Ingest With Ingest Telemetry
With the introduction of Environments & Services, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the creation of new datasets. These new datasets are smaller than ones...
The Present and Future of Arm and AWS Graviton at Honeycomb
As many of you may have read, Amazon has released C7g instances powered by the highly anticipated AWS Graviton3 Processors. As we shared at re:Invent...
Tale of the Beagle (Or It Doesn’t Scale—Except When It Does)
If there’s one thing folks working in internet services love saying, it’s: Yeah, sure, but that won’t scale. It’s an easy complaint to make, but...
Data Availability Isn’t Observability
But it’s better than nothing... Most of the industry is racing to adopt better observability practices, and they’re discovering lots of power in being able...
One Year of Graviton2 at Honeycomb
A year ago, we wrote about our experiences as early adopters of Graviton2, and how we were able to see 30% price-performance improvements on one...
Interview with Honeycomb Engineer Chris Toshok: Dogfooding OpenTelemetry
We often get questions about the difference between using our Beeline SDKs compared with other integrations, especially OpenTelemetry (abbreviated "OTel"). That’s why the team decided...
Incident Report: Investigating an Incident That's Already Resolved
Summary On the 23rd of April, we discovered that an incident had occurred approximately one week earlier. On April 16, for approximately 1.5 hours we...