Can Claude Code Observe Its Own Code?
One of the great things about OpenTelemetry is that it's a standard, and standards tend to proliferate. I was excited to see Claude Code add...
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Ask Miss O11y: Observability Without Manual Tracing
I think my biggest question is: How do I introduce observability without manually weaving tracing-related code throughout my codebase since that adds a lot of...
Ask Miss O11y: How Can I Add o11y to Databases?
How do we bring observability to the DB world? In the SQL Server world, you can marry up perfmon and extended event traces but is...
How to Effectively Lead High-Performing Engineering Teams
What are the foundational elements of a high-performance engineering team? While there’s no silver bullet, a few common threads make up the fabric of engineering...
Why Intuitive Debugging Has Stopped Working for You
It’s harder to understand and operate production systems in 2021 than it was in 2001. Why is that? Shouldn’t we have gotten better at this...
How to Know Whether Your New Job Is a Shitshow or Not
We here at Honeycomb have some pretty strong opinions on the interviewing and hiring process: Namely, that it is broken af in our industry, for...
Ask Miss O11y, Holiday Edition
Hey Miss O11y, what’s your favorite thing about Christmas? Ooh, good question! My favorite thing about this part of the year is that work slows...
Quarterly Product Update: Better Traces, CONCURRENCY, and RATE
At Honeycomb Developer Week, I got an opportunity to walk through a couple of fun new features we’ve shipped since August and ways that we’ve...
BeginSpan is the New Printf: Observability in the Developer Workflow
Observability is a great way to understand how your system is operating in production, diagnose errors when systems fail, and find subtle gaps in logic....
ICYMI: Honeycomb Developer Week Wrap-Up
Getting started with observability can be time consuming. It takes time to configure your apps and practice to change the way you approach troubleshooting. So...
Incident Report: The Missing Trigger Notification Emails
On November 18, between 00:50 and 00:56 UTC, an update was deployed that improved Honeycomb’s business intelligence (BI) telemetry available from our production operations environment....
HoneyByte: Using Application Metrics With Prometheus Clients
Have you ever deep dived into the sea of your tracing data, but wanted additional context around your underlying system? For instance, it may be...
Ask Miss O11y: Load Testing With Fidelity
Dear Miss O11y, My developers and I can't agree about what the right approach is for running load tests in production. Should we even be...