Meet the Honeycomb Beeline for Ruby. Like our Beelines for Go and Node, it understands the common packages you’re using and automatically instruments them to send useful events to Honeycomb. Then once you’ve got a chance to explore your app’s behavior, you can add custom fields specific to your app with just one line of code.
We live in a world of big data, where even small-sized IT environments are generating vast amounts of data. Once an organization has figured out how to tap into the various data sources generating the data, and the method for collecting, processing and storing it, the next step is analysis.
Once you have your Elasticsearch running, you’ll likely eventually find that performance starts to suffer over time. This can be due to a variety of factors, including changes in the way you’re using your cluster to how much and what types of data are being sent in. In order to maintain your cluster, you’ll need to set up monitors to alert you to any warning signs so that you can proactively handle available maintenance windows.
We’re excited to introduce Honeycomb Tracing! Now, you can both: Visualize individual traces to deeply understand request execution, and Break down, filter, and aggregate trace data to uncover patterns, find outliers, and understand historical trends.
Centralized log collection has become a necessity for many organizations. Much of the data we need to run our operations and secure our environments comes from the logs generated by our devices and applications. Centralizing these logs creates a large repository of data that we can query to enable various types of analysis. The most common types are conditional analysis and trend analysis. They both have their place, but trend analysis is perhaps the more often underutilized source of information.
Production logs can help ensure application security, reveal business insights and find and understand errors, crashes, and exceptions. But as useful as logs are, they’re difficult to manage and hard to keep track of. Making matters worse is that as log data volume grows, so does the difficult task of maintaining and managing them. It’s for this reason that developers, DevOps engineers, and CTOs turn to log management tools.
We cover a lot of ground this week with posts on general monitoring principles, home automation, how CERN uses open source projects in their particle acceleration work, and more.
