How Does Honeycomb Compare to Metrics, Log Management, and APM Tools?
At Honeycomb, we are frequently asked how we compare to what else is out there. Do these other tools offer observability? Do I need them all? What’s important? Metrics? Logs? What’s the best way…
How Much Should My Observability Stack Cost?
What should one pay for observability? How much observability is enough? How much is too much, or is there such a thing? Is it better to pay for one product that claims (dubiously) to…
Diving into Data with Honeycomb: BubbleUp (formerly codename: Drilldown) is in Beta!
This blog miniseries talks about how to think about doing data analysis the Honeycomb way. In this episode, we announce an exciting new feature, currently in beta: BubbleUp! (formerly codenamed: Drilldown) Let’s back up…
The Core Analysis Loop, or: Heatmaps Make Analysis Better
In this blog miniseries, I’m talking about how to think about doing data analysis, the Honeycomb way. In Part I, I talked about how heatmaps help us understand how data analysis works. In Part…
How Honeycomb Has Changed the Way Travis CI Operates Their Business
This delightful guest post by Igor Wiedler was originally published on Travis CI’s blog. At Travis CI, we run over 3 million builds per week across three cloud providers with vastly different operating systems…
Heatmaps Make Ops Better
In this blog miniseries, I’d like to talk about how to think about doing data analysis “the Honeycomb way.” Welcome to part 1, where I cover what a heatmap is—and how using them can…
Level Up With Derived Columns: Wibbly-Wobbly Timey-Wimey Manipulation
When we released derived columns last year, we already knew they were a powerful way to manipulate and explore data in Honeycomb, but we didn’t realize just how many different ways folks could use them. We…
Explore RubyGems data with Honeycomb
Our new RubyGems.org public dataset is now available — use it to analyze global download traffic of all gems hosted on RubyGems! About RubyGems.org RubyGems.org is the Ruby community’s gem hosting service. Gem creators…
How Intercom sped up their busiest endpoint (by as much as 50%)
Intercom makes modern products for sales, marketing, and support to connect with customers and grow faster. Environment Rails MySQL MongoDB ELB nginx Terraform Goals The engineering teams at Intercom knew they had an opportunity…
Postmortem: RDS Clogs & Cache-Refresh Crash Loops
On Thursday, October 4, we experienced a partial API outage from 21:02-21:56 UTC (14:02-14:56 PDT). Despite some remediation work, we saw a similar (though less serious) incident again on Thursday October 11 from 15:00-16:02 UTC (8:00-9:02PDT). To implement a more permanent fix, we scheduled an emergency maintenance window which completely interrupted service on Friday Oct 12 for approximately two minutes, from 4:38-4:40 UTC (Thursday Oct 11, 21:38-21:40 PDT).