Fewer Logs, More Value
We’re always interested in improving the signal-to-noise ratio of our internal telemetry at Honeycomb. In an effort to reduce the amount of noise in our...
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Best Practices for Observability
Observability has been getting a lot of attention recently. What started out as a fairly obscure technical term, dragged from the dusty annals of control...
Instrumenting browser page loads at Honeycomb
Update: We now have a browser js guide with practical tips on how to send browser data to Honeycomb. “Nines don’t matter if users aren’t...
Metrics: not the observability droids you're looking for
I went to Monitorama last year for my first time. It was great; I had a terrific time. But I couldn’t help but notice how...
Sharing Honeycomb queries is even better with Boards
Hello Honeycomb users! I’m here to tell you about some updates to a feature some of you may already be using. We’ve renamed playlists to...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 7: Measure twice, cut once: How we made our queries 50% faster...with data
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 6: Instrumenting a Production Service . The entire value proposition of Honeycomb’s columnar...
Bitten by a Kafka Bug - Postmortem
Dearest honeycombers, Yesterday, on Tuesday, Oct 17th, we experienced a partial service outage for some customers, and a small amount of data was dropped during...
You Could Have Invented Structured Logging
Sometimes we hear from folks who are a little bit intimidated by the notion of structured logging. Some common issues: There’s no approachable library for...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 6: Instrumenting a Production Service
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 5: The Correlations Are Not What They Seem. In a recent blog post,...
Istio, Envoy, and Honeycomb
Here at the hive, we’re exceedingly excited about the emerging future of the “service mesh.” After deploying a sidecar proxy such as Envoy, a service...
Heatmaps Are The New Hotness*
Heatmaps are a visualization that shows the statistical distribution of the values in a dataset column over time. Each column of squares in the below...
Testing in Production: Why You Should Never Stop Doing It
Testing in production has gotten a bad rap—despite the fact that we all do it, all the time. This is probably because we associate it...
Using the Golang Pprof Web UI to Debug Memory Usage
Golang as an Observability Tool Go, for good reason, has become an incredibly popular language for everything from web applications to DevOps tools. We lean...