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OpenTelemetry (or “OTel”) helps you get your instrumentation started quickly, and it helps you get the most out of that telemetry data by providing flexible...
Sweetening Your Honey
Are you looking for a better way to troubleshoot, debug, and really see and understand what weird behavior is happening in production? Service-level objectives (SLOs)...
Using Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Java Agent
It's easy to get started with Java and Honeycomb using OpenTelemetry. With Honeycomb being a big supporter of the OpenTelemetry initiative, all it takes is...
Discord Bot Part 2: More Observability
This guest blog post from Chris Gardner is part two of his series on using Honeycomb while developing his Discord bot. It was originally posted...
Discord Bot Part 1: Getting started the right way
This is a guest blog post from Chris Gardner, originally posted on his personal blog. I’ve recently started working on a new project to build...
A User Journey: Setting Up the Node Beeline on Lambda
Nic Wise at Tend Health recently wrote a series of blog posts exploring how they moved away from logs and metrics, toward adopting observability with...
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...
Get on the Right Track with Our Rails Integration!
Whether you’re starting a new Rails project and want to build observability in from the start, or you’re investing in better observability for your existing...
From 0 to Insight with Honeycomb OpenTelemetry
Honeycomb allows you to send in data from a variety of sources. The steps to get there are a choose-your-own-adventure path and the choices to...
Updates to the Java Beeline: Sweeter Than Ever Before
We’ve released some improvements to our Java Beeline library! Allow me to share all the interesting new features. Hot topics: Spring Boot Sleuth Starter, JDBC...
Dogfooding for Deploys: How Honeycomb Builds Better Builds with Observability
Observability changes the way you understand and interact with your applications in production. Beyond knowing what’s happening in prod, observability is also a compass that...
Logging tool no more: Observability sheds light on Dark’s business growth and helps their customers scale
Dark is a programming language and platform that enables building serverless backends. There’s no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. It’s a new paradigm in software...
A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development
The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases,...
HoneyByte: Incremental Instrumentation Beyond the Beeline
"It turns out," said Liz, "it was not a giant pile of work to start adding those rich instrumentation spans as you need them." Liz...
Honeycomb at OSU Libraries & Press
This is a guest post by Ryan Ordway, DevOps Engineer at Oregon State University. At Oregon State University Libraries & Press (OSULP) we have been...