Observability, Telemetry, and Monitoring: Learn About the Differences
Over the past five years, software and systems have become increasingly complex and challenging for teams to understand. A challenging macroeconomic environment, the rise of...
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Introducing Honeycomb for Frontend Observability: Get the Data You Need for Actionable Customer Experience Improvements
New Honeycomb Integrations for PostgreSQL
We’re excited to announce that you can now use honeytail and rdslogs to send your Postgres query logs to Honeycomb. Honeycomb helps you answer the...
The Price is Right
Here at the hive, we’re working on something that isn’t code or new features(!), but is a big part of our business notwithstanding: figuring out...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb Part 8: A Bee's Life
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 7: Measure twice, cut once: How we made our queries 50% faster…with data....
Best Practices for Observability
Observability has been getting a lot of attention recently. What started out as a fairly obscure technical term, dragged from the dusty annals of control...
Instrumenting browser page loads at Honeycomb
Update: We now have a browser js guide with practical tips on how to send browser data to Honeycomb. “Nines don’t matter if users aren’t...
Metrics: not the observability droids you're looking for
I went to Monitorama last year for my first time. It was great; I had a terrific time. But I couldn’t help but notice how...
Sharing Honeycomb queries is even better with Boards
Hello Honeycomb users! I’m here to tell you about some updates to a feature some of you may already be using. We’ve renamed playlists to...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 7: Measure twice, cut once: How we made our queries 50% faster...with data
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 6: Instrumenting a Production Service . The entire value proposition of Honeycomb’s columnar...
Bitten by a Kafka Bug - Postmortem
Dearest honeycombers, Yesterday, on Tuesday, Oct 17th, we experienced a partial service outage for some customers, and a small amount of data was dropped during...
You Could Have Invented Structured Logging
Sometimes we hear from folks who are a little bit intimidated by the notion of structured logging. Some common issues: There’s no approachable library for...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 6: Instrumenting a Production Service
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 5: The Correlations Are Not What They Seem. In a recent blog post,...
Istio, Envoy, and Honeycomb
Here at the hive, we’re exceedingly excited about the emerging future of the “service mesh.” After deploying a sidecar proxy such as Envoy, a service...