Escaping the Cost/Visibility Tradeoff in Observability Platforms
For developers, understanding the performance of shipped code is crucial. Through the last decade, a tablestake function in software monitoring and observability solutions has been...
Observability Is About Confidence
Observability is important to understand what’s happening in production. But carving out the time to add instrumentation to a codebase is daunting, and often treated...
What Is Observability? Key Components and Best Practices
Software systems are increasingly complex. Applications can no longer simply be understood by examining their source code or relying on traditional monitoring methods. The interplay...
So We Shipped an AI Product. Did it Work?
Like many companies, earlier this year we saw an opportunity with LLMs and quickly (but thoughtfully) started building a capability. About a month later, we...
LLMs Demand Observability-Driven Development
Many software engineers are encountering LLMs for the very first time, while many ML engineers are being exposed directly to production systems for the very...
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 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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....