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Category: Observability

Observability   Connectors & Integrations  

Honeycomb + Tracetest: Observability-Driven Development

Our friends at Tracetest recently released an integration with Honeycomb that allows you to build end-to-end and integration tests, powered by your existing distributed traces....

Observability  

Observability and the DORA metrics

The Accelerate State of Devops Report highlights four key metrics (known as the DORA metrics, for DevOps Research & Assessment) that distinguish high-performing software organizations:...

Observability   Customer Stories  

Reducing Mean Time to Diagnosis: How Salary Finance Uses Honeycomb to Ask the Right Questions

Salary Finance is a UK-based financial well-being employee benefit program. Over the last seven years, the company grew from a startup to a scaleup, earning...

OpenTelemetry   Observability  

Observing Core Web Vitals with OpenTelemetry

Each CWV measures a specific part of the end user experience. CWV scores can help identify gaps in web page performance. Additionally, Google uses CWV...

Observability   Dogfooding  

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...

OpenTelemetry   Observability  

How to Trial Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry

Insightful proof-of-concepts with a tool can be difficult to undertake due to the demands on valuable resources: time, energy, and people. With a task as...

Observability  

What Observability-Driven Development Is Not

At Honeycomb, we are all about observability. In the past, we have proposed observability-driven development as a way to maximize your observability and supercharge your...

Observability  

Don’t Let Observability Inflate Your Cloud Costs 

We saw a shift this year in how the technology sector honed in on sustainability from a cost perspective. In particular, looking at where they’re...

Observability  

How Honeycomb Monitors Kubernetes

While Kubernetes comes with a number of benefits, it’s yet another piece of infrastructure that needs to be managed. Here, I’ll talk about three interesting...

Observability  

Customer-Centric Observability: Experiences, Not Just Metrics

Frontend observability is a tricky problem. No website is free of errors or slowdowns; sites break down in weird ways for all kinds of reasons....

OpenTelemetry   Observability  

What Is a Telemetry Pipeline?

In a simple deployment, an application will emit spans, metrics, and logs which will be sent to api.honeycomb.io and show up in charts. This works...

Observability  

5 Ways You Can Utilize Observability to Make Your Next Migration Easier

When people hear the word “migration,” they typically think about migrating from on-prem to the cloud. In reality, companies do migrations of varying types and...

Observability  

Observing the Future: The Power of Observability During Development

Modern software development—where code is shipped fast and fixed quickly—simply can’t happen without building observability in before deployments happen. Teams need to see inside the...

Observability  

5 Ways to Increase Release Velocity with Observability

The pressure on today’s development teams is real: innovate, release quickly, and then do it all again, only faster. Is it any surprise that studies...

Software Engineering   Observability  

5 Ways Honeycomb Saves Time, Money, and Sanity

If debugging has sucked the soul out of your engineers, we’ve got the answer: event-based observability. Instead of spending hours and resources trying to find...

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