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June 16, 2021
George Miranda

George Miranda

The State of Observability in 2021

Observability adoption has increased as more companies seek to understand how their applications behave in production and quickly identify and resolve problems. Our second annual observability maturity report is the first that shows a…

Featured
Observability
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May 6, 2021
Evelyn Chea

Evelyn Chea

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

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…

Observability
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April 29, 2021
Shelby Spees

Shelby Spees

6 Steps to Getting Started With Observability

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…

Observability
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February 9, 2021
Fred Hebert

Fred Hebert

On Not Being a Cog in the Machine

This is my first week here as the first dedicated SRE for Honeycomb, and in a welcoming gesture, I was asked if I wanted to write a blog post about my first impressions and…

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Observability
Teams & Collaboration
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December 24, 2020
George Miranda

George Miranda

Introducing the o11yday Bootcamp

Getting started with observability (o11y) is now easier than ever with the new step-by-step o11yday Bootcamp guide. Now’s a great time to try out Honeycomb, get help if you’re stuck, and pick up a…

Culture
Observability
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October 29, 2020
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

The Future of Ops Careers

For most teams, operations engineering is more necessary than ever. Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors describes what that work looks like for modern software teams, and the new responsibilities involved.

Observability
Operations
o11ycast
September 22, 2020
Emily Nakashima

Emily Nakashima

Intro to o11ycast: A Human Perspective on the Role of Observability

Customer Success Engineer Emily Ashley describes her experience listening to the o11ycast backlog as part of her onboarding, and why the podcast is a great resource for anyone new to observability.

Observability
Operations
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September 8, 2020
Jenni Boyer

Jenni Boyer

SRE + Honeycomb: Observability for Service Reliability

As a Customer Advocate, I talk to a lot of prospective Honeycomb users who want to understand how observability fits into their existing Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practice. While I have a passing familiarity with the discipline, I wanted to learn more about what SREs do in their day-to-day work so that I’d be better able to help them determine if Honeycomb is a good fit for their needs.

Monitoring
Observability
Operations
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August 6, 2020
Irving Popovetsky

Irving Popovetsky

All Aboard! Set Your Team Up for Honeycomb Success

Thank you so much to all who attended Raw & Real Ep. 5 “All Aboard! Bring Your Team Together,” and to any who take the time out of their busy days to watch the…

Connectors & Integrations
Observability
Teams & Collaboration
We love Pollinators!
July 30, 2020
Jenni Boyer

Jenni Boyer

Spread the Love: Appreciating Our Pollinators Community

Have you heard the buzz about observability with Honeycomb 🐝? It’s the best tool on the market for observing your systems in real time to reduce toil and delight users. But don’t listen to us, listen to our kickass community of “Pollinators”–this blog post is dedicated to them 💖

Customer Stories
Observability
Bees Working Together: How ecobee’s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb
July 28, 2020
Deirdre Mahon

Deirdre Mahon

Bees Working Together: How ecobee’s Engineers Adopted Honeycomb

At ecobee, adopting Honeycomb started as a grassroots effort. Engineers signed up for the free tier and quickly started sharing insights with teammates. When it came time for ecobee to make the “build vs. buy” decision for observability tooling, sticking with Honeycomb was the clear choice.

Customer Stories
Observability
Software Engineering
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June 30, 2020
Deirdre Mahon

Deirdre Mahon

Logging tool no more: Observability sheds light on Dark’s business growth and helps their customers scale

Dark is a programming language and platform that enables building serverless backends. There’s no infra, framework or deployment nightmares. It’s a new paradigm in software delivery. As a startup, the Dark team is constantly…

Customer Stories
Instrumentation
Observability
A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development
June 23, 2020
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

A Next Step Beyond Test Driven Development

The most successful software development movement of my lifetime is probably test-driven development or TDD. With TDD, requirements are turned into very specific test cases, then the code is improved so the tests pass….

Instrumentation
Observability
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May 5, 2020
Deirdre Mahon

Deirdre Mahon

Observability: 80% Practicing in the Next 2 Years

Observability is more than tooling. Of course having the right tools in place so you can ask arbitrary questions about your environment, without having to know ahead of time what you wanted to ask,…

Observability
Software Engineering
Huge Leaps
April 30, 2020
Guest Blogger

Guest Blogger

Take huge leaps with Honeycomb for Incident Response

As engineering teams shift from delivering services on monolithic architectures to microservices and even serverless environments, developers are no longer just responsible for creating and maintaining their code. Shared ownership has become the new…

Debugging
Observability
Recent Activity
April 21, 2020
Christine Yen

Christine Yen

Sharing Context Across Space and Time: Honeycomb for Teams

When Charity and I started pitching Honeycomb, we had a “bit” we would do, on the importance of building for teams: I’d identify her as the {Kafka, Mongo, insert tech-of-the-moment here} expert on the…

Observability
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April 20, 2020
Shelby Spees

Shelby Spees

HoneyByte: Incremental Instrumentation Beyond the Beeline

“It turns out,” said Liz, “it was not a giant pile of work to start adding those rich instrumentation spans as you need them.” Liz Fong-Jones was telling dev.to’s Molly Struve about an error…

HoneyBytes
Instrumentation
Observability
Speaking at DevOpsDays NYC
April 14, 2020
Sarrah Vesselov

Sarrah Vesselov

The First and Last Conference of the Year

I was excited to attend DevOpsDays in New York City in March of 2020, but then again, who wouldn’t be? A whole week in the Big Apple with Liz Fong and Christine Yen, yes,…

Observability
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April 9, 2020
Shelby Spees

Shelby Spees

HoneyByte: Make a Beeline Toward Observability Just Like DEV’s Molly Struve

“When things broke,” Molly explained, “you’re mad scrambling—jumping from website to website to website, trying to put the pieces together.” Molly was able to use Honeycomb to fix things up: “It makes my job…

Customer Stories
HoneyBytes
Observability
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April 2, 2020
Shelby Spees

Shelby Spees

Right at Home in My New Role

(Get it? Because I’m working from home…) Hi, I’m Shelby 👋 I’m a new Developer Advocate at Honeycomb. The New Normal What a strange time to be changing jobs. I’m thrilled about my new…

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