Quickly compare every attribute on millions of requests to hone in on problem areas

Other distributed tracing tools give you isolated waterfalls, which by themselves, don’t tell you if what you’re seeing is representative of the system-wide issues that are impacting your users.

By combining traces with the anomaly detection tool BubbleUp, however, Honeycomb automatically compares every attribute on millions of requests to tell you which traces are tied to bad user experiences. Instead of poking around in individual traces looking for (and guessing at) patterns, use Honeycomb to determine which arbitrary combinations of factors are colliding such as Canadian users, using the french language pack, on Android 12, who installed after Tuesday evening. And then dig into only the traces that match these attributes to see where things are slow or failing.