Will AI Speed Development in Your Legacy App?
Some people can get an AI assistant to write a day’s worth of useful code in ten minutes. Others among us can only watch it...
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Honeycomb Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
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Honeycomb In Your IDE? Yes, With Hosted MCP Now Available in AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools Category
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What Are Traces? A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Tracing
The Log Monitoring Guide for Sweet Insights
Logs are more than just records. With proper log monitoring, they become the honey that sweetens observability. Observability is your ability to understand and optimize...
Troubleshooting CORS Errors in Offsite API Calls
In this article, I’ll clear up the confusion around Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), specifically discussing preflight requests, which are the bane of engineers everywhere....
2024 Wrapped: 6 Key Observability Trends
Another one in the history books: 2024 is (almost!) over. The OpenObservability Talks podcast, hosted by Dotan Horovits, recently featured a lively discussion with Charity...
AI Strategies for Software Engineering Career Growth
All the conditions necessary to alter the career paths of brand new software engineers coalesced—extreme layoffs and hiring freezes in tech danced with the irreversible...
Measure What Matters
Have you ever had an alert go off that you immediately ignore? It’s a nuisance alert—not actionable—but you keep it around just in case. Or...
Observability in the Age of AI
Honeycomb engineers were amongst the earliest adopters of this technology. Not in the widely parodied top-down, VP-mandated, “go be AI leaders nao plz” kind of...
Refinery 2.9: A Love Letter to Refinery’s Operators
Refinery is a powerful tail-based sampler—but with great power comes great challenges. We heard your feedback and are excited to announce the release of Refinery 2.9,...
Understanding Develocity Build Data with Honeycomb
Develocity, formerly known as Gradle Enterprise, is a powerful tool that speeds up local and CI build time, helps troubleshoot your builds, and analyzes your...
Fewer Logs, More Value
We’re always interested in improving the signal-to-noise ratio of our internal telemetry at Honeycomb. In an effort to reduce the amount of noise in our...
Duolingo: Speaking the Language of Observability with Honeycomb
As the company experienced rapid growth, Duolingo remained steadfast in their commitment to delivering a high-quality user experience. This dedication led to the launch of...
Ingesting JSON Logs From Containers With the OpenTelemetry Collector
So, how do we get JSON logs into a backend analysis system like Honeycomb that primarily accepts OTLP data? In this post, we’ll cover how...
OneFootball Scores an Observability Goal with Honeycomb
OneFootball recognized that observability was essential to delivering a seamless experience—and as seasoned engineers, they prioritized having the right tool to achieve it. Identifying issues...