Live on the Edge with Honeycomb and CloudFront
Here at Honeycomb, we know that you can get big benefits quickly by starting with observability at the edge. No, not that Edge. The other edge. That’s why today we’re pleased to announce the…
New Honeycomb Integrations for PostgreSQL
We’re excited to announce that you can now use honeytail and rdslogs to send your Postgres query logs to Honeycomb. Honeycomb helps you answer the following questions (and more) about your database workload: “What…
Measure your Chef runs with Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we love Chef! We wanted to know more about what was going on with our Chef runs, and what better tool to use to find out than Honeycomb?
Istio, Envoy and Honeycomb
Here at the hive, we’re exceedingly excited about the emerging future of the “service mesh”. Deploy a sidecar proxy such as Envoy in your infrastructure, and you get consistent support for advanced traffic control,…
Golang Observability: Using the New Pprof Web UI to Debug Memory Usage
Intro Go, for good reason, has become an incredibly popular language for everything from web applications to DevOps tools. We lean on Golang heavily here at Honeycomb, and naturally we are observability nerds, so I got…
Announcing the Honeycomb AWS Elastic Load Balancer Integration
In the modern DevOps / SRE world, one of the most important things to get a clear picture of is what’s happening in between your users and the applications that serve them. Most modern…
Honeycomb <3 Kubernetes Observability
Introducing the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent and ksonnet integration We’re excited to release the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent. The agent provides a flexible way to aggregate, structure, and enrich events from applications running on Kubernetes, before…
Dynamic Sampling in Honeytail
A while ago I wrote a three part series on sampling, covering an introduction, some simple straight forward ways to do it, and some ideas for fancy implementations. I’m happy to say that that…
Ben Explains Things: how your nginx logs can magically turn query strings into columns
If you’ve ever corresponded with us over email or Intercom, chances are you’ve chatted with Ben Hartshorne. Sometimes we see him send off pearls of wisdom and we think “damn! why is this buried…
Tell me more, nginx
When the cool kids talk about interesting log data, no one seems to want to talk about nginx. Web servers are the workhorses of the internet, reliable and battle-hardened, but the logs are standard…