Better CloudWatch Metrics in Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Collector
CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code....
OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers
OpenTelemetry (often abbreviated as OTel) is the golden standard observability framework, allowing users to collect, process, and export telemetry data from their systems. OpenTelemetry’s framework...
How to Get Infinite Custom Metrics For Free
Oh no, I’m getting out-of-memory errors! How much memory is my app using? To find out, we go look for a metric that tells us...
The Cost Crisis in Metrics Tooling
In my February 2024 piece The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling, I explained why the cost of tools built atop the three pillars of metrics,...
How Metrics Behave in Honeycomb
Honeycomb has the ability to receive events from application. These events can take the shape of Honeycomb wide events, OpenTelemetry trace spans, and OpenTelemetry metrics....
Three Ways to Make the Most out of Honeycomb Metrics
A while ago, we added Metrics to our observability platform so teams could easily see system information right next to their application observability data—no tool...
Ask Miss O11y: To Metric or to Trace?
Dear Miss O11y, I remember reading quite interesting opinions from you about usage of metrics and traces in an application. Did you elaborate on those...
Honeycomb Pro: Now With Metrics & SLOs
Honeycomb Pro is about to get even better. Starting today, all Pro accounts have access to Honeycomb Metrics and two Service Level Objectives (SLOs), previously...
The Truth About “MEH-TRICS”
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I said a lot of inflammatory things about metrics. “Metrics are shit salad.” “Metrics are...
HoneyByte: Using Application Metrics With Prometheus Clients
Have you ever deep dived into the sea of your tracing data, but wanted additional context around your underlying system? For instance, it may be...
The Magic of Metrics—and How It Can Burn You
As product developers, our responsibility continues beyond shipping code. To keep our software running, we need to notice whether it’s working in production. To make...
Metrics now generally available in Honeycomb
Join us for a live tour & Q&A session on Honeycomb Metrics. Ready to get hands-on? Honeycomb Metrics is already included in Enterprise subscriptions. Existing...
A New Approach to Metrics
Today at o11ycon+hnycon—right now, actually, if you’re reading this blog when it was posted—we’re announcing several new Honeycomb features during the keynote. Our industry and...
Infrastructure Observability with Resource Events
You may have seen the Honeycomb white paper on metrics, and want to use the power of Honeycomb with metrics. Sending infrastructure metrics data to...
Getting Metrics Into Honeycomb
You can & should send metrics to Honeycomb! But you'll likely replace 95% of those with structured events. How does that work?...