Feature Focus: March 2023
Spring has sprung, and the bees have been busy. Let’s have a look at what’s new in Honeycomb at the close of March.
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Honeycomb + Odyssey
Hear from Odyssey Interactive to learn how they implemented Honeycomb to accelerate development time and resolve issues quickly.
The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series D Funding
TL;DR—This is a fundraising post! Yes, even in this economy. Here at Honeycomb, we've always focused more on the problems we help our customers solve rather than playing the meta game of posturing in startup-land—so these fundraising blog posts are usually the least fun to write (and read, probably). But this one is a little different.
Successful Sampling With Refinery
Honeycomb's trace-aware proxy, Refinery, allows you to sample your data to reduce costs while giving you the ability to ensure the lowest margin of error on your most important data.
Twelve-Factor Apps and Modern Observability
The Twelve-Factor App methodology is a go-to guide for people building microservices. In its time, it presented a step change in how we think about building applications that were built to scale, and be agnostic of their hosting. As applications and hosting have evolved, some of these factors also need to. Specifically, factor 11: Logs (which I’d also argue should be a lot higher up in the ordering).
Trace at Your Own Pace: Three Easy Ways to Get Started with Distributed Tracing
Stepping through a trace is an invaluable debugging workflow, providing a way to follow requests from service to service even as the applications we manage become more complex and distributed. That same complexity can make getting started with distributed tracing feel overwhelming, but it’s important to remember that instrumenting your code is an additive process—you don’t need to boil the ocean. A trace through a thousand services starts with a single ID.
Learn How NS1 Uses Distributed Tracing to Release Code More Quickly and Reliably
Chris Bertinato, Software Architect at NS1, and Nate Daly, Head of Architecture at NS1 along with Jessica Kerr, Honeycomb Developer Advocate, and Account Executive Scott Phillips discuss how NS1 used distributed tracing to scale their organization and accelerate their migration from a monolith to microservices.
Making the Case: The Business Value of Observability
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Discover Unknown Service Interaction Patterns With Istio & Honeycomb
Istio service meshes enable organizations to secure, connect, and monitor microservices to modernize their enterprise apps more swiftly and securely. With the addition of distributed tracing and powerful observability tooling, platform operators can gain immediate actionable insights about their applications.
Intercom: Building a More Resilient Ecosystem Through Observability
Learn how Intercom implemented Honeycomb’s distributed traces to learn about production. Kesha Mykhailov, Product Engineer at Intercom joins Honeycomb Developer Advocate Jessica Kerr, and Account Executive Michael Wilde to discuss how Intercom uses distributed traces to streamline their observability workflows, allowing their product engineers to learn about and from their production to increase Intercom’s resilience. Topics include.