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Metrics  

Three Ways to Make the Most out of Honeycomb Metrics

A while ago, we added Metrics to our observability platform so teams could easily see system information right next to their application observability data—no tool...

Tracing   Metrics   Ask Miss O11y  

Ask Miss O11y: To Metric or to Trace?

Dear Miss O11y, I remember reading quite interesting opinions from you about usage of metrics and traces in an application. Did you elaborate on those...

OpenTelemetry   Debugging  

Errors Got You Down? Honeycomb and OpenTelemetry are Here to Help

It’s 5:00 pm on a Friday. You’re wrapping up work, ready to head into the weekend, when one of your high-value customers Slacks you that...

Product Updates  

Feature Focus: April 2023

You know the old saying, I’m sure: “April deploys bring May joys.” Okay, maybe it doesn’t go exactly like that, but after reading what we’ve...

Product Updates  

Observability, Meet Natural Language Querying with Query Assistant 

Engineers know best. No machine or tool will ever match the context and capacity that engineers have to make judgment calls about what a system...

Observability  

Our Favorite #chArt

Heatmaps are a beautiful thing. So are charts. Even better is that sometimes, they end up producing unintentional—or intentional, in the case of our happy...

Technical Deep Dives   Observability  

Observable Frontends: the State of OpenTelemetry in the Browser

The modern standard for observability in backend systems is: distributed traces with OpenTelemetry, plus dynamic aggregations over these events. This works very well in the...

Thought Leadership   Incident Response  

Should Every Incident Get a Retro?

At a recent training session, Jeli spent a great deal of time covering incident retrospectives and what makes an incident worthy of studying. My colleague...

Thought Leadership   Service Level Objectives  

Alerting on the User Experience

When your alerts cover systems owned by different teams, who should be on call? We get this question a lot when talking about SLOs. We...

Product Updates  

Honeycomb’s Deployment Protection Rule for GitHub Actions

Honeycomb's Deployment Protection Rule for GitHub Actions quickly enables canary deployments by letting you use Honeycomb query results to prevent deploying to your next target...

Technical Deep Dives   Sampling  

Achieving Great Dynamic Sampling with Refinery

Refinery, Honeycomb’s tail-based dynamic sampling proxy, often makes sampling feel like magic. This applies especially to dynamic sampling, because it ensures that interesting and unique...

OpenTelemetry  

OpenTelemetry Roundup for Kubecon EU

We’re in Amsterdam for the week of Kubecon EU. Come by our booth to learn more about how you can gain complete observability into your...

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