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...
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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...
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
In 2018, I dashed off a punchy little blog post in which I observed that teams with good observability seemed to spend around ~20-30% of...
MCP, Easy as 1-2-3?
Seems like you can’t throw a rock without hitting an announcement about a Model Context Protocol server release from your favorite application or developer tool....
Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value
We’re excited to share that Honeycomb has completed our first-ever acquisition: we’re joining forces with Grit, bringing aboard not only a strong team but also...
Observability: It's Every Engineer’s Job, Not Just Ops’ Problem
Observability is way more about software engineering than it is about operations. Operators are users of observability data for monitoring and alerting on systems. They’ll...
How Does ‘Vibe Coding’ Work With Observability?
You can’t throw a rock without hitting an online discussion about ‘vibe coding,’ so I figured I’d add some signal to the noise and discuss...