Honeycomb

https://honeycomb.io

San Francisco, CA, USA

2016

Jun 10, 2021 | By Christine Yen

Today at o11ycon+hnycon—right now, actually, if you’re reading this blog when it was posted—we’re announcing several new Honeycomb features during the keynote. Our industry and community have come a long way since we burst onto the scene, and I’m delighted to give you another version of Honeycomb that continues to demonstrate what’s possible with observability. And it includes metrics.

Easily Debug Your AWS Lambda Functions With Honeycomb

May 24, 2021 | By George Miranda

With the Honeycomb extension for AWS Lambda, you no longer need to make your Lambda functions Honeycomb-aware. Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS Lambda Extensions, which make it easy for us to send logs from your Lambda functions directly to Honeycomb. In October, we announced Honeycomb’s extension for AWS Lambda as part of a preview launch. Today, we’re pleased to announce everyone can now use this extension to easily debug their AWS Lambda functions with Honeycomb.

ICYMI: How Honeycomb Can Help You Achieve the Deployment Part of CI/CD

May 6, 2021 | By Honeycomb

In case you missed it, this webinar includes code walkthroughs that help you to add observability to your pipelines (using a free Honeycomb account!) so that you and your team can speed up your deployments to prod. This is also a risk-free way to get started with observability if your team isn’t quite yet ready to change your production apps.

6 Steps to Getting Started With Observability

Apr 29, 2021 | By Shelby Spees

During my office hours, I frequently get asked for practical tips on getting started with observability. Often it’s from folks on teams who are already practicing continuous delivery (or trying to get there) and are interested in more advanced practices like progressive delivery. They know observability can help—but as individual contributors—they don’t sign the checks, so they feel powerless to help get their team started with observability.

Announcing New Honeycomb Management API

Apr 16, 2021 | By George Miranda

Starting today, Honeycomb’s Management API is generally available to all Honeycomb users. The Honeycomb Management API is a set of endpoints that lets you programmatically set up, configure, and delete queries, datasets, derived columns, and more. With this release, you can now manage Honeycomb with configuration as code either directly via API or with third-party tools, like Terraform, using the community-contributed Honeycomb provider.

Kafka Migration and Lessons Learned

Apr 8, 2021 | By Fred Hebert

Over the last few months, Honeycomb’s platform team migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. Our migration to this newer architecture did not go too smoothly, as can be attested by our status page since February. There were also many near-incidents where we got paged and reacted quickly enough to avoid major issues. We’ve decided to write a full overview of all the challenges we had encountered, which you can can download.

One Year of Graviton2 at Honeycomb

Apr 1, 2021 | By Liz Fong-Jones

A year ago, we wrote about our experiences as early adopters of Graviton2, and how we were able to see 30% price-performance improvements on one dogfood workload from switching to the arm64 architecture. In those initial experiments, we validated running 20% fewer shepherd ingest workers, using the m6g instance type, which cost 10% less per instance compared to c5 instances.

Uniting Tracing and Logs With OpenTelemetry Span Events

Mar 23, 2021 | By Nathan LeClaire

The current landscape of what our customers are dealing with in monitoring and observability can be a bit of a mess. For one thing, there are varying expectations and implementations when it comes to observability data. For another, most customers have to lean on a hodgepodge of tools that might blend open source and proprietary, require extensive onboarding as team members have to learn which tools are used for what, and have a steep learning curve in general.

Event Latency: What It Is and Why You Should Care

Mar 16, 2021 | By Ian Wilkes

Recently, we added a new derived column function to Honeycomb, INGEST_TIMESTAMP(), which can help customers debug event latency and/or inaccurate timestamps. A meaningful minority of the events sent to Honeycomb are already old when they arrive, and a very special few claim to have been sent from the future. Has this happened to you? Let’s do an experiment.

HoneyByte: Test Out Refinery Yourself!

Mar 11, 2021 | By Shelby Spees

Last week, we announced that Refinery, our platform-agnostic sampling solution, is generally available. But it’s always better to see it for yourself. Follow the steps in this HoneyByte to see how Refinery works by running it locally.

Cloud Native Goes Native with Charity Majors and David McKay

Mar 4, 2021 | By Honeycomb

Cloud-native and serverless technologies are gaining traction as organizations increasingly recognize the value of containers and Kubernetes in application development environments. As a result, the cloud-native ecosystem is growing at a healthy pace. In this topic spotlight, we take a look at the cloud-native landscape and discuss its impact on DevOps, application security and more. Some of the issues discussed during the webinar include.

Codefresh Full Observability From Push to Production

Feb 8, 2021 | By Honeycomb

Honeycomb & Kubernetes

Feb 8, 2021 | By Honeycomb

Distributed Tracing in Honeycomb

Feb 8, 2021 | By Honeycomb

OpenTelemetry Collector

Feb 8, 2021 | By Honeycomb

LeadDev Live 2021- Habits of highly-performing teams

Jan 22, 2021 | By Honeycomb

There is a yawning gap opening up between the best and the rest — the elite top few percent of engineering teams are making incredible gains year over year in reliability and lack of technical drag forces, while the bottom 50% are losing ground. Take an engineer out of an elite-performing team and place them in the bottom 50%, and they become subpar too; take an engineer out of a mediocre team and embed them in an elite team, and they are pulling their weight within the year. I will share with you everything I know — everything that went into building a high-performing team at Honeycomb.

Honeycomb Product Demo

Jan 21, 2021 | By Honeycomb

Six-minute Honeycomb Product demo with Nathan LeClaire

Building w/ Observability- Honeycomb & CircleCI

Jan 13, 2021 | By Honeycomb

Do you know exactly what your builds are doing at every step of the way to prod and after they’ve been deployed? A key part of what lets you ship code to production often and quickly is having observability in your builds. Together, CircleCI and Honeycomb can help you get both speed and quality when shipping code to production. In this webinar, we’ll not only examine how CircleCI and Honeycomb work well together, we’ll also look at how Honeycomb used both products together to identify changes that impacted their build times and reduced them by 25%.

Operations - Past, Present and Glorious Future

Dec 4, 2020 | By Honeycomb

People with infrastructure experience and operational experience like “DevOps Engineer”, “SRE”, “Platform Engineer” have started to see those two skill sets diverge. It’s not very clear what that split means for these skilled technical people as they approach the next phase of their careers.

Observability Helps You See What's Weird

Dec 2, 2020 | By Honeycomb

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