Stop Your Database From Hating You With This One Weird Trick
Let’s not bury the lede here: we use Observability-Driven Development at Honeycomb to identify and prevent DB load issues. Like every online service, we experience this familiar cycle: You start with an idea and…
Introducing Honeycomb’s TCP Agent for MongoDB
We’re excited to release honeycomb-tcpagent, an efficient way to get query-level visibility into your MongoDB deployment. honeycomb-tcpagent parses TCP traffic between MongoDB clients and servers, and reconstructs queries in a friendly JSON format. Honeycomb…
Instrumentation: Instrumenting HTTP Services
Welcome to the second week of our blog post series on instrumentation, curated by Julia and Charity. This week will focus more on operational and practical examples; check out previous entries for awesome posts…
Honeycomb Signups Are Back! (With New & Improved Storage Support)
A long time ago, in a galaxy far far away, some of you may remember signing up for Honeycomb access. (Okay, it was probably sometime in August.) We were astonished by the response, by…
The MySQL Slow Query Log, AWS Golang SDK, RDS and You
Did you know you can do fun things with the MySQL slow query log, using the nothing but the AWS golang SDK for RDS? It’s true! In order to let you submit RDS logs…
MySQL and Honeycomb: My First 10 Minutes
As part of the process of building our RDS connector for Honeycomb, we ran it on our own database logs. A few neat things came out of the first 10 minutes of looking at…
MongoDB and Honeycomb: My First 10 Minutes
Real-world examples An interesting side effect of the devopsification of the software industry is how many software engineers and operations engineers increasingly find ourselves in the role of “Accidental DBA,” responsible for operating, debugging,…
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 1: The Long Tail
This post is the first in our series of “dogfooding” posts. At Honeycomb, we dogfood everything: we try to solve all our own problems using our own service. And like any young company, we’re…