Honeycomb Named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
Honeycomb is proud to be named a Visionary in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. We feel that our recognition by Gartner showcases...
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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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What Are Traces? A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Tracing
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Sampling
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Honeycomb Users Are Living in the Future, Part 1: Sampling
What Is a Telemetry Pipeline?
In a simple deployment, an application will emit spans, metrics, and logs which will be sent to api.honeycomb.io and show up in charts. This works...
The Buzz on Honeycomb Academy
At Honeycomb, we believe that observability should be accessible, effective, and transformative. That’s why our customer education team is thrilled to introduce Honeycomb Academy, a...
Enabling Design System Observability Using Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we’re actively growing our design system, Lattice, to ensure accessibility, optimize performance, and establish consistent design patterns across our product. One metric we...
Better CloudWatch Metrics in Honeycomb with the OpenTelemetry Collector
CloudWatch metrics can be a very useful source of information for a number of AWS services that don’t produce telemetry as well as instrumented code....
AI for Software Engineering is Just Another “Paradigm Shift”
How many of you started with technologies you still use exactly the same way today? Even if you’re a master Lisp/Clojure developer, you’ve still evolved,...
Building AI-Ready Infrastructure for the Enterprise
Last week marked the inaugural HumanX conference, a convening of leaders, technologists, policy makers, and media, all brought together to discuss the state of AI...
So, What’s the Difference Between Observability and Monitoring?
Observability and monitoring are not about gathering different data—they differ in their purpose, but share the same data....
LLMs Are Weird Computers
The common definition of a computer is a programmable machine that stores, retrieves, and processes data. I would argue that ChatGPT already fits this definition,...
Generating Calculated Fields From Natural Language
f you've been using Honeycomb for a bit, you know that Calculated Fields (otherwise known as derived columns) are a powerful way to transform your...
Does AI Help Write Better Software, or Just… More Code?
As software teams race to integrate AI into their development workflows, we need to ask ourselves: are AI-powered tools actually making software better?...
How I Code With LLMs These Days
I first started using AI coding assistants in early 2021, with an invite code from a friend who worked on the original GitHub Copilot team....
AI: Where in the Loop Should Humans Go?
AI is everywhere, and its impressive claims are leading to rapid adoption. At this stage, I’d qualify it as charismatic technology—something that under-delivers on what...