Event Foo: Building Better Events
This post from new Honeycomber Rachel Perkins is the seventh in our series on the how, why, and what of events. An event is a...
Introducing the New Honeycomb Quick Start
Today we are pleased to announce the release of the new Honeycomb Quick Start to help you in your quest to become an observability master....
Event Foo: Moar Context Better Events
This guest post from Mark McBride of Turbine Labs is the fifth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. As a...
Event Foo: Designing for Results
This guest post from Matt Klein of Lyft is the fourth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. Event based tracing,...
Event Foo: Constructing a Coherent Narrative
This guest post from Colin Curtin of Good Eggs is the third in our series on the how, why, and what of events. On Event...
Build Observable Systems
What should you log? When your systems break, it’s great to be able to look at what they were doing just before they broke. A...
Event Foo: A Series of Unfortunate/Incredible Events
Good technical intuition is one of the things that defines a good senior engineer. And unpacking that intuition is the most valuable teaching tool. By...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 4: Check Before You Change
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as...
ES7 await/async and superagent
TL;DR await/async are awesome, and you should use them instead of callbacks wherever you can (which is everywhere.) Async functions for ECMAScript is a stage...
Lies My Parents Told Me (About Logs)
Lots of us still believe some pretty silly things about logs. Most of these things used to be true! Some of them never really were....
Tell me more, nginx
When the cool kids talk about interesting log data, no one seems to want to talk about nginx. Web servers are the workhorses of the...
Is Honeycomb a monitoring tool?
You may notice that we don’t talk about “monitoring” much, and that’s because we don’t really think of monitoring as what we do, even though...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-End Failures
At Honeycomb, one of our foremost concerns (in our product as well as our customers’) is reliability. To that end, we have end-to-end (e2e) checks...
The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 3, the "metrics"
This is the third of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, you’re tightly constrained when...
The Problem with Pre-aggregated Metrics: Part 2, the "aggregated"
This is the second of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, your flexibility is tightly...