Gotta Go Slow
I anticipated this would be a challenging time and that I would be exhausted. So, the plan became: do all the demanding things, take my...
Building a Simple Synthetic Monitor With OpenTelemetry
In this post, I’ll cover what synthetic monitoring is and show an example of how you can create a simple monitor using OpenTelemetry, .NET, and...
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
In last week’s piece, we talked about some of the factors that are driving costs up, both good and bad, and about whether your observability...
New Feature: Manage Your session.id in Honeycomb’s Web SDK
The session.id field is special in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability. It’s a default option for filtering and grouping, and it’s the basis for session timeline...
Data Strategy for SREs and Observability Teams
The idea that telemetry data needs to be managed, or needs a strategy, draws a lot of inspiration from the data world (as in, BI...
How Much Should I Be Spending On Observability?
In 2018, I dashed off a punchy little blog post in which I observed that teams with good observability seemed to spend around ~20-30% of...
MCP, Easy as 1-2-3?
Seems like you can’t throw a rock without hitting an announcement about a Model Context Protocol server release from your favorite application or developer tool....
Honeycomb Acquires Grit: A Strategic Investment in Pragmatic AI and Customer Value
We’re excited to share that Honeycomb has completed our first-ever acquisition: we’re joining forces with Grit, bringing aboard not only a strong team but also...
Observability: It's Every Engineer’s Job, Not Just Ops’ Problem
Observability is way more about software engineering than it is about operations. Operators are users of observability data for monitoring and alerting on systems. They’ll...
How Does ‘Vibe Coding’ Work With Observability?
You can’t throw a rock without hitting an online discussion about ‘vibe coding,’ so I figured I’d add some signal to the noise and discuss...
The Buzz on Honeycomb Academy
At Honeycomb, we believe that observability should be accessible, effective, and transformative. That’s why our customer education team is thrilled to introduce Honeycomb Academy, a...
Enabling Design System Observability Using Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we’re actively growing our design system, Lattice, to ensure accessibility, optimize performance, and establish consistent design patterns across our product. One metric we...
Better CloudWatch Metrics in Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Collector
CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code....