Is Honeycomb a monitoring tool?
You may notice that we don’t talk about “monitoring” much, and that’s because we don’t really think of monitoring as what we do, even though it kind of is. Traditional monitoring relies heavily on…
Instrumentation: system calls: an amazing interface for instrumentation
When you’re debugging, there are two basic ways you can poke at something. You can: create new instrumentation (like “adding print statements”) use existing instrumentation (“look at print statements you already added”, “use Wireshark”)…
Instrumentation: What does ‘uptime’ mean?
This is the second post in our second week on instrumentation. Want more? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! Everybody talks about uptime, and any SLA…
Instrumentation: Instrumenting HTTP Services
Welcome to the second week of our blog post series on instrumentation, curated by Julia and Charity. This week will focus more on operational and practical examples; check out previous entries for awesome posts…
Instrumentation: Worst case performance matters
This is the fifth in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! BrightRoll’s Realtime team is responsible for…
Instrumentation Is About Making People Awesome
This is the fourth in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! The nuts and bolts of metrics,…
Finite state machines make instrumentation easy
This is the third in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! There is a way to structure…
Instrumentation: Measuring Capacity Through Utilization
This is the second in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out yesterday’s piece on the first four things you measure. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! One of my…
Honeycomb Triggers – Alert on your Data
We’re happy to announce the launch of Honeycomb Triggers—a method to get notifications when the data you send in to Honeycomb crosses configured thresholds. We’d like to show off how to use Triggers with…
Instrumentation: The First Four Things You Measure
Note: this is the first in a series of guest posts about best practices and stories around instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback!…