Toward a Maturity Model for Observability
Access to observability is becoming critical to organizations shipping software, running modern infrastructures in production, and to understanding how users are experiencing their service. To...
Tracing and Observability for Background Jobs
Illuminating the under-loved with Honeycomb Most modern web apps end up sprouting some subset of tasks that happen in the “background”, i.e., when a user...
Metric Analysis, Application Performance Monitoring, and Log Management: Where Does Honeycomb Fit In?
If you’re involved in improving the performance of your application, you’ve probably heard about application performance monitoring (APM), metric analysis, and log management. But you...
How Much Should My Observability Stack Cost?
UPDATE: Charity has written an update on observability spend for 2025 with new figures. Read the two-part blog series here: Part 1: Is your observability...
Diving into Data with Honeycomb: BubbleUp (formerly codename: Drilldown) is in Beta!
This blog miniseries talks about how to think about doing data analysis the Honeycomb way. In this episode, we announce an exciting new feature, currently...
The Core Analysis Loop, or: Heatmaps Make Analysis Better
In this blog miniseries, I'm talking about how to think about doing data analysis, the Honeycomb way. In Part I, I talked about how heatmaps...
Heatmaps Make Ops Better
In this blog miniseries, I'd like to talk about how to think about doing data analysis "the Honeycomb way." Welcome to part 1, where I...
Explore RubyGems data with Honeycomb
Our new RubyGems.org public dataset is now available — use it to analyze global download traffic of all gems hosted on RubyGems! About RubyGems.org RubyGems.org...
Postmortem: RDS Clogs & Cache-Refresh Crash Loops
On Thursday, October 4, we experienced a partial API outage from 21:02-21:56 UTC (14:02-14:56 PDT). Despite some remediation work, we saw a similar (though less...
Honeycomb vs Elastic Stack: It's About Priorities
If you've been paying attention, you know that although collecting and reviewing metrics and logs is a core part of running a stable and successful...
Level Up with Derived Columns: Two Neat Tricks That Will Improve Your Observability
When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just...
Level Up With Derived Columns: Bucketing Events For Comparison
When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t...
Level Up With Derived Columns: Understanding Screen Size (With Basic Arithmetic)
When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just...
How Are Structured Logs Different From Events?
We're all collectively trying to define observability ("o11y," pronounced "olly") these days, and, as Honeycomb is sometimes described as an event-based observability product, trying to...
Honeycomb goes Serverless: Send your app data without running agents
Serverless apps are growing in popularity, thanks to tools like AWS API Gateway and Lambda, and a growing number of powerful frameworks that simplify development...