Teams & Collaboration   Incident Response  

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...

OpenTelemetry  

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....

Product Updates   News & Announcements   Frontend  

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...

Frontend  

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...

Logging  

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...

Software Engineering   Culture  

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...

Observability  

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....

OpenTelemetry  

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...

Observability  

Is it Time to Version Observability? Signs Point to Yes

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...

Logging  

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...

Software Engineering   Observability  

The Evolution of Engineering and the Role of Observability 2.0 in Shaping the Future

Engineering has come a long way since the days of delivering discrete, point-in-time products that were often packaged on a CD and shipped to customers....

Sampling  

Getting Started With Refinery: Rules File Template

Sampling is a necessity for applications at scale. We at Honeycomb sample our data through the use of our Refinery tool, and we recommend that...

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