Introducing Native Mobile Support in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability
You shipped your latest release. You tested it on emulators, QA devices, and the latest OS versions. But now it’s live and running on thousands...
Understanding Your App’s Health With Core Mobile Vitals
There are certain important metrics that every mobile app has in common. At Honeycomb, we have surveyed these metrics across iOS and Android, and have...
Unleash SaaS Data With the Webhookevent Receiver
There are many vendors, Honeycomb included, where actions on the application can emit a web request that goes to another service for coordination or tracking...
Visualizing Session Flow With Honeycomb
I want to know what users are doing in my application. A distributed trace is the best way to show the data flow of one...
Reporting CSP Errors in Honeycomb With the OpenTelemetry Collector
The HTTP Content-Security-Policy response header is used to control how the browser is allowed to load various content types. It is used to control which...
Building a Simple Synthetic Monitor With OpenTelemetry
In this post, I’ll cover what synthetic monitoring is and show an example of how you can create a simple monitor using OpenTelemetry, .NET, and...
New Feature: Manage Your session.id in Honeycomb’s Web SDK
The session.id field is special in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability. It’s a default option for filtering and grouping, and it’s the basis for session timeline...
Better CloudWatch Metrics in Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Collector
CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code....
OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers
OpenTelemetry (often abbreviated as OTel) is the golden standard observability framework, allowing users to collect, process, and export telemetry data from their systems. OpenTelemetry’s framework...
OpenTelemetry Is Not “Three Pillars”
OpenTelemetry is a big, big project. It’s so big, in fact, that it can be hard to know what part you’re talking about when you’re...
What’s That Collector Doing?
The Collector is one of many tools that the OpenTelemetry project provides end users to use in their observability journey. It is a powerful mechanism...
Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector
The OpenTelemetry Collector is an exceptional solution for proxying and enhancing telemetry, but it’s also great for generating telemetry from machines too. In this post,...
Fewer Logs, More Value
We’re always interested in improving the signal-to-noise ratio of our internal telemetry at Honeycomb. In an effort to reduce the amount of noise in our...
Ingesting JSON Logs From Containers With the OpenTelemetry Collector
So, how do we get JSON logs into a backend analysis system like Honeycomb that primarily accepts OTLP data? In this post, we’ll cover how...
Beyond Monitoring: A Guide to Cloud Observability
With more and often smaller processes, cloud-native architectures have driven the need for better insights into our software—a way to look into how these processes...