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By Muhammed Ali
Heroku vs AWS: these cloud platforms represent fundamentally different approaches to application cloud hosting. The decision between them often determines whether your team ships features in hours or spends days configuring infrastructure. Both platforms represent different philosophies in cloud computing, with Heroku prioritizing developer experience while AWS maximizes infrastructure control.
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By Julie Kent
At some point, logs stop being enough. As applications grow more distributed, understanding what's actually happening in production becomes harder. That's what observability platforms are built for. The hard part is figuring out which one is actually right for your application — and your budget. This guide covers some popular options: what they do well, where they fall short, and who they're for.
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By Ben Findley
When you have a lot of websites, SSL certificate expiration monitoring can be a lot of work, especially without using a certificate authority such as Let's Encrypt. The last thing you want is an outage because a random SSL certificate wasn't set to auto-renew and expired! Honeybadger has your back! That's why we added SSL certificate warnings to our existing uptime monitoring feature.
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By Muhammed Ali
If you are deciding where to deploy a web app, you will almost always run into a choice between a platform like Heroku and running on Kubernetes. This article will compare Heroku and Kubernetes. They are two popular platforms for deploying and managing applications. This article breaks down the key differences in architecture, use cases, complexity, cost, and scalability to help engineers choose the right go-to platform for their needs.
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By Joshua Wood
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) means many things to many people. At its core, it enables developers to diagnose why their applications are slow and helps them provide a better experience to their users. Traditionally, this is accomplished by collecting a lot of data and displaying it in the form of dashboards and request traces. The problems you're trying to solve are generally known up front.
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By Joshua Wood
Here's some excellent news for the Pythonistas in the room: You can now monitor the performance of your Python applications with Honeybadger. Last year, we launched Honeybadger Insights, a new logging and observability tool bundled with Honeybadger. Insights enables you to query your application logs and events to answer performance questions, perform root-cause analyses, and create charts and dashboards to see what's happening in real time.
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By Starr Horne
If you're like me, you got into this business because you love building awesome apps. If you've been in the development space long enough, you'll eventually have to do work on those awesome apps that doesn't feel so awesome. Security can be one of those things. Taking Rails security seriously is important, even though the Rails framework does much of the heavy lifting. Before we get too deep into the details of Ruby on Rails security, let's take a second to reflect on the good times. ...
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By Mauro Chojrin
In most object-oriented languages, exceptions are an extremely powerful mechanism for dealing with unexpected situations that arise when running your code. PHP has supported robust exception handling since PHP 7.0. As you begin your programming journey, exceptions are a source of tremendous pain. Over time, you grow to appreciate the value they bring.
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By Joshua Wood
Hey Elixir friends, great news! Honeybadger now offers performance monitoring for your Elixir, Phoenix, and Oban applications. Last year, we launched Honeybadger Insights, a new logging and performance monitoring tool bundled with Honeybadger. Insights allows you to query your logs and events to diagnose performance issues, perform root-cause analyses, and create charts and dashboards to see what's happening in real time.
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By Milap Neupane
Before we can release our software to end users, we must perform different kinds of tests to ensure that the application is bug-free and meets business requirements. When users begin using the application, various things can cause the application to behave unexpectedly, for some of the following reasons: For large-scale applications, these things are crucial to know before a full-fledged release.
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By Honeybadger
Make your Honeybadger Insights dashboards and queries dynamic with parameterized queries. In this short walkthrough, we'll take a static system dashboard — showing load average, memory, and disk usage across a fleet of hosts — and turn it into an interactive view you can filter to a single host with one click. What you'll see: Parameterized queries are a simple way to build one dashboard that serves many views — no duplication, no extra widgets, just a shareable URL.
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By Honeybadger
In this demo, Kevin shows how you can use Honeybadger's MCP server with Claude to investigate a production incident — going from a natural language prompt to a complete incident dashboard in minutes. Honeybadger is an application health monitoring platform that helps developers catch errors, track performance, and stay on top of incidents. The MCP server lets AI assistants like Claude query your Honeybadger data directly, so you can investigate issues conversationally without digging through dashboards manually.
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By Honeybadger
Ben and Josh discuss the benefits and perils of using AI assistants for programming. FounderQuest Episode 21, Season 5 January 3, 2025.
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By Honeybadger
Ben, Josh, and John Nunemaker are back from RubyConf and take the opportunity to discuss how to sponsor a conference as a small software company. Protip: bring your furniture from home. FounderQuest Episode 20, Season 5 December 6, 2024.
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By Honeybadger
Ben and Josh go off-script for a fun and hopefully-not-too-long chat about their favorite Twitter-like social network, Bluesky. FounderQuest Episode 19, Season 5 November 22, 2024.
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By Honeybadger
Join Honeybadger cofounder Ben Curtis as he uses Honeybadger to find and query for application errors in Honeybadger Insights. Honeybadger Insights is a new full-stack logging, observability, and performance monitoring tool from Honeybadger.io. Gain insights into your errors, application logs, and other event streams with a powerful query language and ready-made dashboards.
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By Honeybadger
Josh and Ben reconnect with their friend, JP Boily, to discuss the recent sale of his company Metrics Watch, along with conferences they may or may not want to go to, and company retreats they may or may not attend. FounderQuest Episode 18, Season 5 October 25, 2024.
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By Honeybadger
Josh and Ben talk with John about his recent acquisition of Fireside, covering the finances, pitfalls avoided, and more acquisition tips. FounderQuest Episode 17, Season 5 October 11, 2024.
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By Honeybadger
Ben, Josh, and John discuss pricing, including how to approach pricing, what they do and don't like about pricing, and how pricing works at Honeybadger and Flipper. FounderQuest Episode 16, Season 5 August 30, 2024.
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By Honeybadger
Longtime friend of the pod Adam McCrea joins Josh and Ben to catch up and chat about his journey building Judoscale—an autoscaling service for Heroku, Render, and AWS! FounderQuest Episode 13, Season 5 June 7, 2024.
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Zero-instrumentation, 360 degree coverage of errors, outages and service degradation. Deploy with confidence and be your team's devops hero.
Monitoring — like web development — is complex. Every day we hear about new tools and techniques, but they're usually for big organizations. Ones with dedicated devops teams and so much traffic they care more about “error rates” than individual user experiences. When you're on a smaller team, this doesn't work so well. You know instrumentation doesn’t pay the bills. Customers do. When they encounter a problem you need clear actionable intelligence, not walls of charts and reams of logs.
What if there were a monitoring tool for developers like us? A single tool that could answer at a glance:
- Are any front-end or back-end systems raising errors?
- Is the site unreachable or unusually slow?
- Are scheduled tasks completing as expected?
- Which customers have been affected by errors today?
Honeybadger is used by tens of thousands of pragmatic developers in companies of all sizes who want to focus on shipping great, error-free products instead of wasting time building and maintaining a bespoke monitoring stack.