Never Alone On Call
Does your organization have an on-call rotation? Several members of the Honeycomb engineering team recently hosted a live webcast about why they never feel alone...
Taming A Game-Changer: Honeycomb and GraphQL at VendHQ
This guest post is from Evan Shaw, Lead Engineer at vendhq.com. GraphQL: a game-changer GraphQL is a query language for APIs. It allows you to...
Velocity (& Reliability) - Two must-haves for every software engineering team
(Field notes from O’Reilly’s Velocity 2019 Show, San Jose.) It was steamy hot in San Jose during O’Reilly’s Velocity show and the normally frigid AC...
Making Instrumentation Extensible
Observability-driven development requires both rich query capabilities and sufficient instrumentation in order to capture the nuances of developers' intention and useful dimensions of cardinality. When...
Toward a Maturity Model for Observability
Access to observability is becoming critical to organizations shipping software, running modern infrastructures in production, and to understanding how users are experiencing their service. To...
Dynamic Sampling by Example
Last week, Rachel published a guide describing the advantages of dynamic sampling. In it, we discussed varying sample rates to achieve a target collection rate...
Anatomy of a Cascading Failure
In Caches Are Good, Except When They Are Bad, we identified four separate problems that combined together to cause a cascading failure in our API...
When In Doubt, Add More Spans: A Tale of Tracing and Testing In Production
Recently, Toshok was telling a story about the kind of thing he talks about a lot—improving the performance of some endpoint or page or other....
Incident Review: Caches are Good, Except When They Are Bad
Between Wednesday, April 17th and Friday, April 26th, Honeycomb had four separate periods of downtime affecting the Honeycomb API, resulting in approximately 38 minutes of...
A New Bee's First Oncall
I'm Honeycomb's newest engineer, now on my eighth week at Honeycomb. Excitingly, I did my first week of oncall two weeks ago! Almost every engineer...
How To Talk to Your Boss About Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we're pretty engineering-focused. We think our product is something every developer can benefit from, and we're working to build something we would want...
Spooky Tales of Testing In Production: A Recap and Lessons Learned
Happy December! Back in October, we cohosted a SPOOKY HALLOWEEN meetup with our pals at LaunchDarkly about testing in production. Here's a review of the...
The Core Analysis Loop, or: Heatmaps Make Analysis Better
In this blog miniseries, I'm talking about how to think about doing data analysis, the Honeycomb way. In Part I, I talked about how heatmaps...
Heatmaps Make Ops Better
In this blog miniseries, I'd like to talk about how to think about doing data analysis "the Honeycomb way." Welcome to part 1, where I...
Explore RubyGems data with Honeycomb
Our new RubyGems.org public dataset is now available — use it to analyze global download traffic of all gems hosted on RubyGems! About RubyGems.org RubyGems.org...