We help you understand your software in the language of your business through observability.
Our mission
Bring observability to every software engineer.
Observability is the building block for all other engineering best practices. When engineering teams invest in observability, they enable valuable feedback loops that allow them to debug faster and innovate more, empowering them to truly become the innovation engine of modern companies.
We built Honeycomb—the only unified, fast, and collaborative observability platform focused on the customer experience—for teams who manage software that matters.
Our story
Learn how an ops engineer and a developer came together to solve a really hard engineering problem, create the observability category, and bring "tools that do not suck" to engineering teams everywhere.
We are the observability pioneers, and we will be your partners and guides along your journey. We meet you where you are, and guide you to a better place.
Working at Honeycomb
Observability is the future—and it’s up to us to take the lead and shape that future. We believe in questioning the status quo and charting our own path. Perhaps you do, too.
Our values
Our values are the “how” in how we work with our colleagues, engage with our community, and build observability software.
Fast and close to right is better than perfect
Take pride in your craft and ship relentlessly. Be like our storage engine: 99% right in milliseconds is better than 100% right in an hour. Code in production is worth two in canary.
We hire adults
Pay attention to your mind and body so you can give and get help. All of us wobble, and being transparent about that means we can support each other.
Everything is an experiment
Don’t get attached to specific outcomes, as they can prevent you from moving forward. Construct your experiments with purpose, evaluate them with honesty, and share your results.
Feedback is a muscle
Giving and receiving feedback is like strengthening a muscle. This is not a skill we are born with, or ever perfectly master; and nobody gets it right every single time.
Act with autonomy and ownership
Come curious. Focus on impact over output. Be generous with your ideas and use your judgment. Optimize for our collective success, not individual glory. Kill your darlings. Be bold and shake it up.
Our team
We think equally about building Honeycomb the product, the business, and the company. We’re committed to building a software engineering company of which our people are proud to have been a part.
Loved by teams across the world
After years in engineering feeling like I was missing critical insights, with our switch to Honeycomb, suddenly, it’s like I have sight for the first time in my career.
Pawel Malon
Principal Software Engineer, Phorest
We rely on Honeycomb to provide the world-class scale and resilience LaunchDarkly customers expect.
Edith Harbaugh
Co-founder and CEO, LaunchDarkly
We’re able to bring a different mentality in the way we run and manage our production systems. We were able to really help our engineering teams and change the culture.
Rich Anakor
Chief Solutions Architect, Vanguard
People ask, ‘Where’s Honeycomb in the new architecture?’ The answer is it’s everywhere. It’s built in.
Nick Herring
Technical Director of Infrastructure, CCP Games
We have predictable pricing that lets us do away with the legacy approach of sampling logs to preserve budget. Honeycomb’s event-based pricing empowers us to see every request from every service that comes through.
Michael Garski
Director of Platform Engineering, Fender
Our investors
As well as Mike Krieger, Ilya Sukhar, Anamitra Banerji, Venkat Venkataramani, and a number of other angels.
Want to know more?
Talk to our team to arrange a custom demo or for help finding the right plan.