Will AI Speed Development in Your Legacy App?
Some people can get an AI assistant to write a day’s worth of useful code in ten minutes. Others among us can only watch it...
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Observability
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Honeycomb Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
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LLMs
Honeycomb In Your IDE? Yes, With Hosted MCP Now Available in AWS Marketplace AI Agents and Tools Category
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OpenTelemetry
The Fast Path to More Useful Telemetry
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Tracing
What Are Traces? A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Tracing
The Future and The Floor: Framing Investments for Growth
There are a limited number of investments that a team can make in any given year and it can be daunting to choose the “right”...
Welcome Jessica Nunn To Our Board of Directors!
Ever since January of 2022, we have had an employee representative seated on our board of directors. Paul Osman was the first employee to hold...
Configuring a React Application with Honeycomb For Frontend Observability
In this article, I’ll lay out approaches for wiring Honeycomb to client-side only React so you can ingest your telemetry into Honeycomb and take advantage...
Tracing Refinery
We recently released Refinery 2.9, which came with great performance improvements. Reading through the release notes, I felt the need to write a piece on...
AIOps: Prove It!
I’ve read a steadily increasing stream of articles about using AI in SRE, and I have yet to find one that inspires my trust. Each...
Implementing High-Cardinality Instrumentation in Frontend Apps
In speaking with frontend engineers this past year, I realized that understanding the power of wide events is a big mental shift. We’re used to...
The Most Important Developer Productivity Metric
At Honeycomb, we believe in ensuring an awesome developer experience for our own engineering teams; it's the only way that we can compete with companies...
Faster Fixes, Happier Customers: Gearset Leverages Honeycomb for Success
Gearset knew it was time to level up their observability strategy. To deliver the reliability and responsiveness their customers expected, they needed a more powerful...
What Is Auto-Instrumentation?
In the past, we’ve written about what instrumentation is and the insights it provides. Instrumenting your code generates telemetry that shows you how your system...
Using GitHub Copilot to Speed Up Your Development Workflow
As a software engineer, I’m always evaluating tools and technologies that can optimize my workflow. Developer productivity isn’t just about writing more code—it’s about reducing...
What’s That Collector Doing?
The Collector is one of many tools that the OpenTelemetry project provides end users to use in their observability journey. It is a powerful mechanism...
Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector
The OpenTelemetry Collector is an exceptional solution for proxying and enhancing telemetry, but it’s also great for generating telemetry from machines too. In this post,...