Announcing General Availability of the Honeycomb Query Data API
The Query Data API is a Honeycomb Enterprise feature. With a Honeycomb Enterprise account, you can use this API today. Head over to our API...
Understanding Lambda Sleep Cycles With CONCURRENCY
CONCURRENCY is now enabled for all customers. See our docs page for information about how it works and how to use it effectively. Questions or...
Improving Our Typography to Optimize the Honeycomb User Experience
This is the second post in our series about Lattice, Honeycomb’s new design system and how we’re applying a user-centric design philosophy to our product. ...
Designing Honeycomb for Our Users
You might have noticed some visual changes happening in Honeycomb lately. Colors, typography, icons, and some features have started to look a bit different. While...
A New Approach to Metrics
Today at o11ycon+hnycon—right now, actually, if you’re reading this blog when it was posted—we’re announcing several new Honeycomb features during the keynote. Our industry and...
Announcing New Honeycomb Management API
Starting today, Honeycomb's Management API is generally available to all Honeycomb users. The Honeycomb Management API is a set of endpoints that lets you programmatically...
Event Latency: What It Is and Why You Should Care
Recently, we added a new derived column function to Honeycomb, INGEST_TIMESTAMP(), which can help customers debug event latency and/or inaccurate timestamps. A meaningful minority of...
Refine Your Observability Experience at Scale
Today, we announced that Refinery is now generally available. With Refinery, it’s now easy to highlight the critical debugging data you need and to stop...
Show Your Query You Love It By Naming It
Honeycomb is all about collaboration: We believe that observability is a team sport, and we want to give you as many tools to help your...
We listened. Simpler Pricing. You’re welcome.
I’ve tackled this question before: how much should my observability stack cost? While the things in that post are true now as ever, I did...
Unpacking Events: All the Better to Observe
At Honeycomb, we believe events are the building blocks for observability. What exactly is an event? What does that mean for your team’s observability journey?...
Free as in Honey
Starting today, you can use more of Honeycomb than ever before for free. That means more teams can start building up production excellence with features...
Challenges with Implementing SLOs
A few months ago, Honeycomb released our SLO — Service Level Objective — feature to the world. We’ve written before about how to use it...
Honeycomb SLO Now Generally Available: Success, Defined.
Honeycomb now offers SLOs, aka Service Level Objectives. This is the second in a set of of essays on creating SLOs from first principles. Previously,...
From "Secondary Storage" To Just "Storage": A Tale of Lambdas, LZ4, and Garbage Collection
When we introduced Secondary Storage two years ago, it was a deliberate compromise between economy and performance. Compared to Honeycomb’s primary NVMe storage attached to...