What Are Traces? A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Tracing
In this post, we’ll describe what traces are, how they work, and the value traces provide in observability, helping stakeholders understand their systems and delivering...
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Observability Without Tradeoffs: Introducing Powerful New Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Features
HoneyByte: Incremental Instrumentation Beyond the Beeline
"It turns out," said Liz, "it was not a giant pile of work to start adding those rich instrumentation spans as you need them." Liz...
The First and Last Conference of the Year
I was excited to attend DevOpsDays in New York City in March of 2020, but then again, who wouldn't be? A whole week in the...
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...