Preempting Problems in a Sociotechnical System
Here at Honeycomb, we emphasize that organizations are sociotechnical systems. At a high level, that means that “wet-brained” people and the stuff they do is...
Catching Up With Fender: How Frontend Observability Powers Better User Experiences
For years, Fender Musical Instruments has been synonymous with iconic guitars and amplifiers. But in recent years, the company has expanded its legacy into the...
Restructuring How We Think About Alerts
Back in Alerts Are Fundamentally Messy, I made the point that the events we monitor are often fuzzy and uncertain. To make a distinction between...
The Future and The Floor: Framing Investments for Growth
There are a limited number of investments that a team can make in any given year and it can be daunting to choose the “right”...
Welcome Jessica Nunn To Our Board of Directors!
Ever since January of 2022, we have had an employee representative seated on our board of directors. Paul Osman was the first employee to hold...
Configuring a React Application with Honeycomb For Frontend Observability
In this article, I’ll lay out approaches for wiring Honeycomb to client-side only React so you can ingest your telemetry into Honeycomb and take advantage...
Tracing Refinery
We recently released Refinery 2.9, which came with great performance improvements. Reading through the release notes, I felt the need to write a piece on...
AIOps: Prove It!
I’ve read a steadily increasing stream of articles about using AI in SRE, and I have yet to find one that inspires my trust. Each...
Implementing High-Cardinality Instrumentation in Frontend Apps
In speaking with frontend engineers this past year, I realized that understanding the power of wide events is a big mental shift. We’re used to...
The Most Important Developer Productivity Metric
At Honeycomb, we believe in ensuring an awesome developer experience for our own engineering teams; it's the only way that we can compete with companies...
Faster Fixes, Happier Customers: Gearset Leverages Honeycomb for Success
Gearset knew it was time to level up their observability strategy. To deliver the reliability and responsiveness their customers expected, they needed a more powerful...
Using GitHub Copilot to Speed Up Your Development Workflow
As a software engineer, I’m always evaluating tools and technologies that can optimize my workflow. Developer productivity isn’t just about writing more code—it’s about reducing...
What’s That Collector Doing?
The Collector is one of many tools that the OpenTelemetry project provides end users to use in their observability journey. It is a powerful mechanism...