Observability  

There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0

We’ve been talking about observability 2.0 a lot lately; what it means for telemetry and instrumentation, its practices and sociotechnical implications, and the dramatically different...

Tracing   Logging  

Tracing the Line: Understanding Logs vs. Traces

In the software space, we spend a lot of time defining the terminology that describes our roles, implementations, and ways of working. These terms help...

Teams & Collaboration   Incident Response  

Against Incident Severities and in Favor of Incident Types

About a year ago, Honeycomb kicked off an internal experiment to structure how we do incident response. We looked at the usual severity-based approach (usually...

Product Updates   Databases  

Relational Fields: Query Even More Relationships in Your Traces

Earlier this year, we introduced relational fields. Relational fields enable you to query spans based on their relationship to one other within a trace, rather...

Tracing   OpenTelemetry   Customer Stories  

Driving Multi-Region Observability Excellence at Lansweeper 

Since its inception in 2004, Lansweeper has been at the forefront of helping businesses understand, manage, and protect their IT devices and networks through a...

Logging  

Tame Your Telemetry: Introducing the Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline

Observability means you know what’s happening in your software systems, because they tell you. They tell you with telemetry: data emitted just for the people...

Teams & Collaboration   Culture  

Determining a CoPE’s Efficacy—and Everything After

As discussed in the first article in this series, a Center of Production Excellence (CoPE) is a more or less formal, provisional subsystem within an...

Logging   Debugging  

Debugging Kubernetes Autoscaling with Honeycomb Log Analytics

Let's be real, we've never been huge fans of conventional unstructured logs at Honeycomb. From the very start, we've emitted from our own codestructured wide...

Logging  

Unlock the Real Value of Logs With Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline and Honeycomb for Log Analytics

At Honeycomb, we know how important it is for organizations to have a unified observability platform. This is why we’re launching Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline and...

Teams & Collaboration   Software Engineering   Product Updates  

Feature Focus: A Six-Week Progress Recap - September 2024

Over the past six weeks, we introduced a series of impactful updates aimed at making your observability workflows faster, more unified, and more collaborative. Here’s a...

Teams & Collaboration   Frontend  

Frontend Observability: A Candid Conversation With Emily Nakashima and Charity Majors

Frontend development has evolved rapidly over the past decade, but one challenge remains constant: understanding what’s happening in real-time across diverse browsers, environments, and user...

Frontend  

Redefining RUM: A Comparative Gap Analysis of Existing Tools

Real user monitoring (RUM) began as a straightforward approach to tracking basic web performance metrics. Focused on things like page load times and response rates,...

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