Empowering Engineering Excellence: Achieving a 26% Reduction in On-call Pages at Amperity with Modern Observability for Logs
Amperity required an observability partner to facilitate their transition into the modern engineering era as their previous tooling struggled to support their growth strategy....
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Markers: Observe your systems and your humans
Honeycomb provides a powerful tool to ask questions about your systems, but your systems and users aren’t the only agents for chaos in your organization....
Event Foo: Moar Context Better Events
This guest post from Mark McBride of Turbine Labs is the fifth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. As a...
Event Foo: Designing for Results
This guest post from Matt Klein of Lyft is the fourth in our series on the how, why, and what of events. Event based tracing,...
Event Foo: Constructing a Coherent Narrative
This guest post from Colin Curtin of Good Eggs is the third in our series on the how, why, and what of events. On Event...
Build Observable Systems
What should you log? When your systems break, it’s great to be able to look at what they were doing just before they broke. A...
Event Foo: A Series of Unfortunate/Incredible Events
Good technical intuition is one of the things that defines a good senior engineer. And unpacking that intuition is the most valuable teaching tool. By...
Introducing Derived Columns
We’re excited to introduce derived columns! Derived columns let you run queries based on the value of an expression that’s computed from the columns in...
Filtering in Context: Get Your Investigation On
File under: little things that go a long way. By popular demand, right click and filter! Stay in context Filtering via right click keeps you...
Stacked Graphs in Honeycomb!
The most common visualization for time series data is the line graph. Seeing each group as an independent line can make it very easy to...
How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 4: Check Before You Change
This post continues our dogfooding series from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 3: End-to-end Failures. As Honeycomb matures, we try to roll out changes as...
ES7 await/async and superagent
TL;DR await/async are awesome, and you should use them instead of callbacks wherever you can (which is everywhere.) Async functions for ECMAScript is a stage...
Lies My Parents Told Me (About Logs)
Lots of us still believe some pretty silly things about logs. Most of these things used to be true! Some of them never really were....