Visualizing Session Flow With Honeycomb
I want to know what users are doing in my application. A distributed trace is the best way to show the data flow of one...
HoneyByte: Make a Beeline Toward Observability Just Like DEV’s Molly Struve
“When things broke,” Molly explained, “you’re mad scrambling—jumping from website to website to website, trying to put the pieces together.” Molly was able to use...
Right at Home in My New Role
(Get it? Because I’m working from home...) Hi, I’m Shelby 👋 I’m a new Developer Advocate at Honeycomb. The New Normal What a strange time...
Challenges with Implementing SLOs
A few months ago, Honeycomb released our SLO — Service Level Objective — feature to the world. We’ve written before about how to use it...
OpenTelemetry: New Honeycomb Exporters
We’re really big fans of OpenTelemetry at Honeycomb. As we’ve blogged about before, OpenTelemetry is the next phase of the OpenTracing and OpenCensus projects. Instead...
Observations on ARM64 & AWS’s Amazon EC2 M6g Instances
At re:Invent in December, Amazon announced the AWS Graviton2 processor and its forthcoming availability powering Amazon EC2 M6g instances. While the first-generation Graviton processor that...
Chad Malchow, VP Sales Joins Honeycomb
Welcome to the Hive & Observability Community. Though it may ultimately be remembered for a multitude of other things, for us at Honeycomb, 2019 was...
The Future of Software is a Sociotechnical Problem
"Sociotechnical" I learned this word from Liz Fong-Jones recently, and it immediately entered my daily lexicon. You know exactly what it means as soon as...
Honeycomb Welcomes New VP Engineering
(Why it’s so important to look inside your org before you look outside) I am delighted to announce that we have a new VP of...
They Aren’t Pillars, They’re Lenses
To have Observability is to have the ability to understand your system’s internal state based on signals and externally-visible output. Honeycomb’s approach to Observability is...
What happens when a seasoned engineer goes on vacation?
Have you ever experienced a time when someone on your team takes off to recharge or takes unplanned downtime away from work? It may feel...
Bring Test Engineering into your DevOps practice
What do a test engineer and a DevOps or SRE team member have in common? The reality is that different teams need to proactively understand...
"Hot-take" on 3 Popular Open Source Tools & The Observability Landscape
New eGuide takes a closer look at Prometheus, ELK and Jaeger: Open source tooling has its benefits. No licensing costs and you’re free to download,...