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
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...
OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers
OpenTelemetry (often abbreviated as OTel) is the golden standard observability framework, allowing users to collect, process, and export telemetry data from their systems. OpenTelemetry’s framework...
OpenTelemetry Is Not “Three Pillars”
OpenTelemetry is a big, big project. It’s so big, in fact, that it can be hard to know what part you’re talking about when you’re...
Slicing Up—and Iterating on—SLOs
One of the main pieces of advice about Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is that they should focus on the user experience. Invariably, this leads to...