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Understand how Honeycomb differs from other approaches.
Rox Williams
Evaluating Dynatrace alternatives? Compare top observability platforms, including Honeycomb, Datadog, New Relic, Grafana, and more on features, pricing, and complexity to find the best fit for your team.
Exploring Grafana alternatives? Compare top observability platforms, including Honeycomb, Datadog, Dynatrace, and more, on features, pricing, and ease of use to find the right fit for your team.
Application performance monitoring, also known as APM, represents the difference between code and running software. You need the measurements in order to manage performance.
Martin Thwaites
Observability and monitoring are not about gathering different data—they differ in their purpose, but share the same data.
Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)
In twenty years of software development, I did not have the privilege of being on call, of tending to my software in production. I’ve never understood what “APM” means. Anybody can tell me what it stands for—Application Performance Monitoring (or sometimes, the M means Management)—but what does it mean? What do people use APM for? Now, I work at an observability company—and still, no one can give me a satisfying definition of “APM.” So I did some research, and now the use of APM makes sense from a few angles.
In this post, we’ll look at how you can use OpenTelemetry to monitor your unit tests and send that data to Honeycomb to visualize. It’s important to note that you don’t need to adopt Honeycomb, or even OpenTelemetry, in your production application to get the benefit of tracing. This example uses OpenTelemetry purely in the test project and provides great insights into our customer’s code.
Pierre Tessier
You may have seen the Honeycomb white paper on metrics, and want to use the power of Honeycomb with metrics. Sending infrastructure metrics data to Honeycomb has always been possible, but with our focus…
Christine Yen
This year was my third in a row attending (and now speaking at!) Monitorama. Because the organizers do a great job of turning introverts into extroverts for three days straight, it’s always a fun…
Charity Majors
Testing in production has gotten a bad rap—despite the fact that we all do it, all the time. This is probably because we associate it with not enough testing before production: continuous integration, unit…
“Is observability just monitoring with another name?” “Observability: we changed the word because developers don’t like monitoring.” There’s been a lot of hilarious snark about this lately. Which is great, who doesn’t love A+…
