LoginSignificant CPU Usage Improvements in New Version of libhoney.py
We’ve published version 1.2.0 of libhoney-py, which now batches events. Based on our internal testing, this results in 8-10x more efficiency, so you probably want to give this a try if you’re sending us…
High Availability with the Honeycomb AWS Bundle
The time has finally come–you can now run the Honeycomb AWS Bundle with a high availability setup! No more anxiously hoping your instance stays up and if it doesn’t, that you can restart rapidly!…
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…