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One of the great things about OpenTelemetry is that it's a standard, and standards tend to proliferate. I was excited to see Claude Code add...
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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...
What Is Auto-Instrumentation?
In the past, we’ve written about what instrumentation is and the insights it provides. Instrumenting your code generates telemetry that shows you how your system...
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...
Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector
The OpenTelemetry Collector is an exceptional solution for proxying and enhancing telemetry, but it’s also great for generating telemetry from machines too. In this post,...
The Log Monitoring Guide for Sweet Insights
Logs are more than just records. With proper log monitoring, they become the honey that sweetens observability. Observability is your ability to understand and optimize...
Troubleshooting CORS Errors in Offsite API Calls
In this article, I’ll clear up the confusion around Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS), specifically discussing preflight requests, which are the bane of engineers everywhere....
2024 Wrapped: 6 Key Observability Trends
Another one in the history books: 2024 is (almost!) over. The OpenObservability Talks podcast, hosted by Dotan Horovits, recently featured a lively discussion with Charity...
AI Strategies for Software Engineering Career Growth
All the conditions necessary to alter the career paths of brand new software engineers coalesced—extreme layoffs and hiring freezes in tech danced with the irreversible...
Measure What Matters
Have you ever had an alert go off that you immediately ignore? It’s a nuisance alert—not actionable—but you keep it around just in case. Or...
Observability in the Age of AI
Honeycomb engineers were amongst the earliest adopters of this technology. Not in the widely parodied top-down, VP-mandated, “go be AI leaders nao plz” kind of...
Refinery 2.9: A Love Letter to Refinery’s Operators
Refinery is a powerful tail-based sampler—but with great power comes great challenges. We heard your feedback and are excited to announce the release of Refinery 2.9,...