Data Strategy for SREs and Observability Teams
The idea that telemetry data needs to be managed, or needs a strategy, draws a lot of inspiration from the data world (as in, BI...
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Using Honeycomb for Frontend Observability to Improve Honeycomb
Recently, we announced the launch of Honeycomb for Frontend Observability, our new solution that helps frontend developers move from traditional monitoring to observability. What this...
Refinery and EMA Sampling
Refinery is Honeycomb's sampling proxy, which our largest customers use to improve the value they get from their telemetry. It has a variety of interesting...
Syncing PagerDuty Schedules to Slack Groups
We’ve posted before about how engineers on call at Honeycomb aren’t expected to do project work, and that whenever they’re not dealing with interruptions, they’re...
The OTTL Cookbook: Common Solutions to Data Transformation Problems
As our software complexity increases, so does our telemetry—and as our telemetry increases, it needs more and more tweaking en route to its final destination....
Beyond Backend: Honeycomb for Frontend Observability is Now GA
Observability has traditionally been backend-focused, but the frontend is just as hard—if not harder—to debug and has simply outgrown current monitoring tools. Engineers working with...
Debugging INP With Honeycomb for Frontend Observability
In this post, I'm going to walk through how you can use Honeycomb for Frontend Observability to debug INP, which was just promoted to a...
An Engineer’s Checklist of Logging Best Practices
The best DevOps and SRE teams have shifted their approach to monitoring and logging their systems. These teams debug problems cohesively and rationally, regardless of...
A CoPE’s Duty: Indexing on Prod
Building a center of production excellence (CoPE) starts with indexing on production. Here’s why. Odds are that a software engineer today is really focused on...
An Ode to Events
At this point, it’s almost passé to write a blog post comparing events to the three pillars. Nobody really wants to give up their position....
Is OpenTelemetry Open for Business? September 2024 Update
One of the things about OpenTelemetry that’s easy to miss if you’re not spending the whole day in the ins and outs of the project...
It's Time to Version Observability: Introducing Observability 2.0
In 2016, we at Honeycomb first borrowed the term “observability” from the wikipedia entry for control systems observability, where it is a measure of your...
Getting Started With Log Management
Whether you’re using logs to debug issues, keeping an eye on system performance, or protecting your infrastructure, good log management hygiene can make a huge...