Fewer Logs, More Value
We’re always interested in improving the signal-to-noise ratio of our internal telemetry at Honeycomb. In an effort to reduce the amount of noise in our...
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Beyond Monitoring: A Guide to Cloud Observability
Simulation Theory, Observability, and Modern Software Practices
The 1981 book Simulacra and Simulation by Jean Baudrillard is widely read and cited within academic circles but also permeates popular culture, influencing films, literature,...
Introducing Relational Fields
Expanded fields allow you to more easily find interesting traces and learn about the spans within them, saving time for debugging and enabling more curiosity...
Real User Monitoring With a Splash of OpenTelemetry
You're probably familiar with the concept of real user monitoring (RUM) and how it's used to monitor websites or mobile applications. If not, here's the...
Transforming to an Engineering Culture of Curiosity With a Modern Observability 2.0 Solution
Relying on their traditional observability 1.0 tool, Pax8 faced hurdles in fostering a culture of ownership and curiosity due to user-based pricing limitations and an...
Transitioning to OpenTelemetry
This article touches on how we at Birdie handled our transition from logs towards using OpenTelemetry as the primary mechanism for achieving world-class observability of...
Honeycomb + Google Gemini
Today at Google Next, Charity Majors demonstrated how to use Honeycomb to find unexpected problems in our generative AI integration. Software components that integrate with...
Instrumenting a Demo App With OpenTelemetry and Honeycomb
A few days ago, I was in a meeting with a prospect who was just starting to try out OpenTelemetry. One of the things that...
Observing Core Web Vitals with OpenTelemetry: Part Two
In a previous blog post, we outlined how to set up our own auto-instrumentation to send Core Web Vitals data to Honeycomb. We recently released...
Frontend Debugging Is Bad and it Should Feel Bad
There’s a sentence that strikes fear into the heart of every frontend developer I've ever met: Users are reporting issues, and we don't know how...
A Day in the Life: Customer Success
We thought it'd be fun to give you some insights into what certain teams at Honeycomb do and how they spend their days, and who...
Transforming Financial Services with Modern Observability: Moov's Story
As a new company poised to transform the financial services industry with its modern money movement platform, Moov wanted an equally modern observability platform as...
OpenTelemetry Best Practices #2: Agents, Sidecars, Collectors, Coded Instrumentation
For years, we’ve been installing what vendors have referred to as “agents” that reach into our applications and pull out useful telemetry information from them....