Can Claude Code Observe Its Own Code?
One of the great things about OpenTelemetry is that it's a standard, and standards tend to proliferate. I was excited to see Claude Code add...
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Webinar Recap: How to Avoid Being On Call With Under-Instrumented Tools
"It's expensive. It's difficult. Our APM works just fine." The three myths of observability can lead to being on call with under-instrumented tools. That's exactly...
Ingesting HTTP Access Logs from AppService
Debugging application performance in Azure AppService is something that’s quite difficult using Azure’s built-in services (like Application Insights). Among some of the issues are visualizations,...
Honeycomb Supports Service Ownership
The software industry is moving toward teams that own the services they build. This concept encloses principles and possibilities from movements toward microservices, DevOps, Agile,...
Authors' Cut—Structured Events Are the Basis of Observability
Our Author's Cut series takes a deep dive into our O’Reilly Observability Engineering book. Join us for this session on structured events....
Going On Call for the First Time
Miss O11y addresses common concerns of being on call and provides helpful advice on how to overcome any fear it may bring....
An Observability Guide From Someone with a Precarious Grasp on the Topic
I’m Phillip, a product manager here at Honeycomb. After eleven-ish months of working on our product, I totally understand observability, right? ...Kinda? Sorta? Maybe? I'm...
Honeycomb Cements Its Position as a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™
Honeycomb ruffled the first of many feathers nearly seven years ago when we coined the term “observability” in talking about production code. Today, we get...
What the Hell is Activity Anyway?
Dear Miss O11y, I use .NET and I keep seeing something called `Activity` but in OpenTelemetry there is only talk about “Span” and “Trace,” why?...
Ask Miss O11y: As a developer, how can I try out observability?
Dear Miss o11y, What's the first small thing to do in o11y that would teach me something, bring something valuable, and open the way for...
Service Level Objectives as Code: Terraforming Honeycomb SLOs
In March, we announced official support for a Honeycomb Terraform Provider. Today, we’re announcing additional support for managing Honeycomb Service Level Objectives (SLOs) with Terraform....
Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap
It has been seven years since Rent the Runway posted their engineering ladder, kicking off a veritable trend of engineering teams open sourcing their ladders....
Tracking On-Call Health
If you have an on-call rotation, you want it to be a healthy one. But this is sort of hard to measure because it has...