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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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OpenTelemetry
The Fast Path to More Useful Telemetry
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What Are Traces? A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Tracing
Instrument Your Rails Apps Automatically With Honeycomb's New Rails Integration
You’ve always been able to get observability for your Ruby apps by instrumenting them with our SDK, affectionately known as libhoney. Unfortunately, instrumenting code you’ve...
Get Observability for Your Mobile Apps with Honeycomb
If you think about it, mobile apps are among the production services most in need of real observability: nearly countless hardware platforms and operating systems...
New Dataset Details and Schema Page Updates in Honeycomb
Happy Tuesday! We’ve got some Honeycomb improvements to share that I hope will make your day sweeter. Isn’t that soothing? Feel free to take a...
Observability: A Manifesto
Everybody and their freaking grandpa is now claiming to do observability, not stodgy old monitoring. Fine, great. Nice to be trendy I guess. But are...
Resolving High CPU Usage in Kubernetes With Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we’re excited about Kubernetes. In fact, we’re in the early stages of moving some of our services to k8s. Tools like kops have...
The New Best Engineer
If you make a habit of reading twitter or the writings of various thought lords and ladies of the internet, you’ve probably heard a lot...
Announcing Secondary Storage and the Fast Query Window
We tried pretty hard to resist making this joke, but: Now you can keep your hot data hot and your cool data cool! (How many...
Sam Stokes talks about data infrastructure on the Data Engineering Podcast
This past week, Honeycomb engineering manager Sam Stokes was interviewed on the Data Engineering Podcast, and in addition to hearing him talk a little about...
Security Through Observability
Observability is great for understanding the ramifications of your system. In brief, massively distributed application stacks demand more sophisticated tools than traditional metrics/monitoring, because engineers...
Oncall and Sustainable Software Development
Yes, being on call typically and anecdotally sucks. I understand! If you’ve heard me speak, I often point out that I’ve been oncall since I...
Structured Logging and Your Team
This guest blog post from Anton Drukh of snyk.io is part of our series on structured logging. From 1 service to over 50 today We...
Raising Money To Bring You More, Better Observability!
We’re excited to announce that we’ve closed an $11.5M Series A round with our friends at e.ventures, Storm, NextWorld, and Merian! It’s been a wild...