Observability Without Tradeoffs: Introducing Powerful New Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Features
With this release, you can more easily build and reconfigure telemetry pipelines and sample safely with the ability to easily pull full-fidelity data from your...
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Dashboards, or Launchpads?
I have a personal vendetta against “dashboards.” Not because they're not useful—I actually think they’re extremely useful—but rather because they're generally built with the wrong...
Introducing Native Mobile Support in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability
You shipped your latest release. You tested it on emulators, QA devices, and the latest OS versions. But now it’s live and running on thousands...
Understanding Your App’s Health With Core Mobile Vitals
There are certain important metrics that every mobile app has in common. At Honeycomb, we have surveyed these metrics across iOS and Android, and have...
Gotta Go Slow
I anticipated this would be a challenging time and that I would be exhausted. So, the plan became: do all the demanding things, take my...
Unleash SaaS Data With the Webhookevent Receiver
There are many vendors, Honeycomb included, where actions on the application can emit a web request that goes to another service for coordination or tracking...
Visualizing Session Flow With Honeycomb
I want to know what users are doing in my application. A distributed trace is the best way to show the data flow of one...
Reporting CSP Errors in Honeycomb With the OpenTelemetry Collector
The HTTP Content-Security-Policy response header is used to control how the browser is allowed to load various content types. It is used to control which...
The Guide to Kubernetes Debugging
Kubernetes is widely used for deploying, scaling, and managing systems and applications and is an industry standard for container orchestration. Google engineers originally developed Kubernetes...
Building a Simple Synthetic Monitor With OpenTelemetry
In this post, I’ll cover what synthetic monitoring is and show an example of how you can create a simple monitor using OpenTelemetry, .NET, and...
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
In last week’s piece, we talked about some of the factors that are driving costs up, both good and bad, and about whether your observability...
New Feature: Manage Your session.id in Honeycomb’s Web SDK
The session.id field is special in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability. It’s a default option for filtering and grouping, and it’s the basis for session timeline...
Data Strategy for SREs and Observability Teams
The idea that telemetry data needs to be managed, or needs a strategy, draws a lot of inspiration from the data world (as in, BI...