Getting At The Good Stuff: How To Sample Traces in Honeycomb
(This is the first post by our new head of Customer Success, Irving.) Sampling is a must for applications at scale; it’s a technique for...
Instrumenting Lambda with Traces: A Complete Example in Python
We’re big fans of AWS Lambda at Honeycomb. As you may have read, we recently made some major improvements to our storage engine by leveraging...
OpenTelemetry vs OpenTracing | Understanding OpenCensus and Related Terms
There’s been a fair bit of buzz lately about OpenTelemetry, which is the next major version of the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects. The leadership of...
Investigating Timeouts With Tracing Using Sentry
Tracing is one of the key tools that Honeycomb offers to make sense of data. Over the last few weeks, we've made a number of...
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....
Tracing and Observability for Background Jobs
Illuminating the under-loved with Honeycomb Most modern web apps end up sprouting some subset of tasks that happen in the “background”, i.e., when a user...
BubbleUp Meets Tracing (and Other Odd-shaped Data)
A few weeks ago, BubbleUp came out of Beta. We've been getting fantastic user feedback on how BubbleUp helps users speed through the Core Analysis...
The True Cost of “Search-First” Problem-solving on Your Production Systems
The search-first problem-solving approach—meaning “open up the log search tool” (Splunk, ELK, Loggly, SumoLogic, Scalyr, etc)—is a costly and time-consuming operation during which the true...
Metric Analysis, Application Performance Monitoring, and Log Management: Where Does Honeycomb Fit In?
If you’re involved in improving the performance of your application, you’ve probably heard about application performance monitoring (APM), metric analysis, and log management. But you...
Collaboration with OpenCensus: A new way to get traces into Honeycomb
Okay, the cat was out of the bag when the PR merged -- Regardless, we're happy to announce the existence of the Honeycomb Exporter for...