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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...
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Focused Labs & Honeycomb: Better Together
We're excited to unveil a new collaboration with Focused Labs, a leap forward in our shared commitment to advancing modern observability practices and enhancing the...
OpenTelemetry Best Practices #1: Naming
Naming things, and specifically consistently naming things, is still one of the most useful pieces of work you can do in telemetry. It’s often overlooked...
Driving Culture Change: Phorest's Observability Transformation
Phorest delivers a premier software solution that empowers their salon and spa business customers to thrive. Ensuring every engineer has access to an observability tool...
Sending OpenTelemetry Data From AWS Lambda to Honeycomb
In this post, Chris describes how to send OpenTelemetry (OTel) data from an AWS Lambda instance to Honeycomb....
Negotiating Priorities Around Incident Investigations
There are countless challenges around incident investigations and reports. Aside from sensitive situations revolving around blame and corrections, tricky problems come up when having discussions...
Much Ado About OpenTelemetry
There is so much good work that OpenTelemetry has done in the software industry, specifically around the domain of observability, in the last five years....
APM From a Developer’s Perspective
In twenty years of software development, I did not have the privilege of being on call, of tending to my software in production. I’ve never...
Flight to Success: Birdie's DevOps Evolution Fueled by Observability Insights
Birdie’s platform is a complex software system that covers a lot of ground—from care management and rostering to HR and finance. To ensure the platform...
Three Properties of Data to Make LLMs Awesome
Back in May 2023, I helped launch my first bona fide feature that uses LLMs in production. It was difficult in lots of different ways,...
What Is Application Performance Monitoring?
Application performance monitoring, also known as APM, represents the difference between code and running software. You need the measurements in order to manage performance....
Safer Client-Side Instrumentation with Honeycomb's Ingest-Only API Keys
We're delighted to introduce our new Ingest API Keys, a significant step toward enabling all Honeycomb customers to manage their observability complexity simply, efficiently, and...
Data Sovereignty and OpenTelemetry
In today’s economic and regulatory environment, data sovereignty is increasingly top of mind for observability teams. The rules and regulations surrounding telemetry data can often...