LoginObservability: What’s in a Name?
“Is observability just monitoring with another name?” “Observability: we changed the word because developers don’t like monitoring.” There’s been a lot of hilarious snark about this lately. Which is great, who doesn’t love A+…
Our First Outage
Dear honeycomb users, On Saturday, Aug 19th, we experienced a service outage for all customers. This was our first-ever outage, even though we’ve had users in production for almost exactly one year, and paying…
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. Sometimes they are “true enough” to get you a…
Instrumenting High Volume Services: Part 3
This is the last of three posts focusing on sampling as a part of your toolbox for handling services that generate large amounts of instrumentation data. The first one was an introduction to sampling…
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,…