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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 dataâno 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 âMEH-TRICSâ
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I said a lot of inflammatory things about metrics. âMetrics are shit salad.â âMetrics 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 Metricsâand How It Can Burn You
As product developers, our responsibility continues beyond shipping code. To keep our software running, we need to notice whether itâs 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+hnyconâright now, actually, if youâre reading this blog when it was postedâweâre 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?...
"Hot-take" on 3 Popular Open Source Tools & The Observability Landscape
New eGuide takes a closer look at Prometheus, ELK and Jaeger: Open source tooling has its benefits. No licensing costs and youâre free to download,...
Building Your Observability Practice with Tools that Co-exist
A lot of product marketing is about telling people to throw away what they have in favor of something entirely new. Sometimes that is the...
The New Rules of Sampling
One of the most common questions we get at Honeycomb is about how to control costs while still achieving the level of observability needed to...
Metrics vs Events: A Conversation About Controlling Volume
If I'm used to metrics, how should I think about events in Honeycomb? This question cuts to the heart of how Honeycomb is different from...