Refinery and EMA Sampling
Refinery is Honeycomb's sampling proxy, which our largest customers use to improve the value they get from their telemetry. It has a variety of interesting...
An Ode to Events
At this point, it’s almost passé to write a blog post comparing events to the three pillars. Nobody really wants to give up their position....
It's Time to Version Observability: Introducing Observability 2.0
In 2016, we at Honeycomb first borrowed the term “observability” from the wikipedia entry for control systems observability, where it is a measure of your...
The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0 in Shaping the Future
Engineering has come a long way since the days of delivering discrete, point-in-time products that were often packaged on a CD and shipped to customers....
What Is Full-Stack Observability?
Simply put, full-stack observability is monitoring designed for modern, cloud-native architectures. It allows you to understand how your software system interacts at scale, across everything...
Apdex in Honeycomb
“How is my app performing?” is one of the most common, yet hardest questions to answer. There are myriad ways to measure this, like error...
Navigating Software Engineering Complexity With Observability
In the not-too-distant past, building software was relatively straightforward. The simplicity of LAMP stacks, Rails, and other well-defined web frameworks provided a stable foundation. Issues...
Framework for an Observability Maturity Model: Using Observability to Advance Your Engineering & Product
Everyone's talking about “observability,” but many don’t know what it is, what it’s for, or what benefits it offers. With this framing of observability in...
Announcing Honeycomb Support Business Hours in Europe
Earlier this year, Honeycomb announced the launch of data residency in Europe. To meet the growing needs of our customers in the region, we are...
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,...
Observability, Telemetry, and Monitoring: Learn About the Differences
Over the past five years, software and systems have become increasingly complex and challenging for teams to understand. A challenging macroeconomic environment, the rise of...
Introducing Honeycomb for Frontend Observability: Get the Data You Need for Actionable Customer Experience Improvements
Honeycomb for Frontend Observability gives frontend developers the ability to quickly identify opportunities for optimization within their web app. This starts with better OpenTelemetry instrumentation,...
Real User Monitoring With a Splash of OpenTelemetry
You're probably familiar with the concept of real user monitoring (RUM) and how it's used to monitor websites or mobile applications. If not, here's the...
Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution
Relying on their traditional observability 1.0 tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an...
Honeycomb + Google Gemini
Today at Google Next, Charity Majors demonstrated how to use Honeycomb to find unexpected problems in our generative AI integration. Software components that integrate with...