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August 31, 2017
Nathan LeClaire

Nathan LeClaire

Using the Golang Pprof Web UI to Debug Memory Usage

Golang as an Observability Tool Go, for good reason, has become an incredibly popular language for everything from web applications to DevOps tools. We lean on Golang heavily here at Honeycomb, and naturally we…

Connectors & Integrations
Observability
Product Updates
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August 17, 2017
Nathan LeClaire

Nathan LeClaire

Announcing the Honeycomb AWS Elastic Load Balancer Integration

In the modern DevOps / SRE world, one of the most important things to get a clear picture of is what’s happening in between your users and the applications that serve them. Most modern…

Connectors & Integrations
Product Updates
high_cardinality
July 25, 2017
Nathan LeClaire

Nathan LeClaire

Introducing the New Honeycomb Quick Start

Today we are pleased to announce the release of the new Honeycomb Quick Start to help you in your quest to become an observability master. In case you’re unfamiliar, Honeycomb is a tool to…

Observability
Product Updates
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July 13, 2017
Eben Freeman

Eben Freeman

Honeycomb <3 Kubernetes Observability

Introducing the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent and ksonnet integration We’re excited to release the Honeycomb Kubernetes Agent. The agent provides a flexible way to aggregate, structure, and enrich events from applications running on Kubernetes, before…

Connectors & Integrations
Product Updates
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July 12, 2017
Chris Toshok

Chris Toshok

Markers: Observe your systems and your humans

Honeycomb provides a powerful tool to ask questions about your systems, but your systems and users aren’t the only agents for chaos in your organization. Changes to your infrastructure, be they automated or manual,…

Product Updates
creating a derived column
June 27, 2017
Eben Freeman

Eben Freeman

Introducing Derived Columns

We’re excited to introduce derived columns! Derived columns let you run queries based on the value of an expression that’s computed from the columns in an event, making it easier to answer questions such…

Product Updates
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June 22, 2017
Chris Toshok

Chris Toshok

Filtering in Context: Get Your Investigation On

File under: little things that go a long way. By popular demand, right click and filter! Stay in context Filtering via right click keeps you in context of your investigation. For example: when looking…

Product Updates
stacked
June 20, 2017
Chris Toshok

Chris Toshok

Stacked Graphs in Honeycomb!

The most common visualization for time series data is the line graph. Seeing each group as an independent line can make it very easy to see what’s going on relative to other lines, but…

Product Updates
new home page, with playlists and recent team activity
March 20, 2017
Christine Yen

Christine Yen

Save Useful Queries with Honeycomb Playlists

Update: this feature is now called Boards but functions the same way–check out “Sharing Honeycomb queries is even better with Boards” for the details Here at the Hive, we’ve been hard at work on…

Product Updates
Better nginx exploration: manipulating request_time and endpoint_shape
February 14, 2017
Christine Yen

Christine Yen

Tell me more, nginx

When the cool kids talk about interesting log data, no one seems to want to talk about nginx. Web servers are the workhorses of the internet, reliable and battle-hardened, but the logs are standard…

Connectors & Integrations
Debugging
Observability
Product Updates
Initial query for e2e failures
January 9, 2017
Ben Hartshorne

Ben Hartshorne

Honeycomb Triggers – Alert on your Data

We’re happy to announce the launch of Honeycomb Triggers—a method to get notifications when the data you send in to Honeycomb crosses configured thresholds. We’d like to show off how to use Triggers with…

Monitoring
Operations
Product Updates
Enriching Nginx Logs with request_time, Server Data, and Other Goodies
September 15, 2016
Ben Hartshorne

Ben Hartshorne

Enriching Nginx Logs with request_time, Server Data, and Other Goodies

How can you make your nginx logs more awesome? Nginx has some fantastic data hiding in its log_format spec, but oddly enough, most of it is not enabled by default. Here are a couple…

Connectors & Integrations
Product Updates
Honeycomb’s Open Source Connectors
August 16, 2016
Ben Hartshorne

Ben Hartshorne

Honeycomb’s Open Source Connectors

We’re happy to announce 3 open sourced components to help you get your data into Honeycomb – 2 libraries and a log tailing utility. We have two libraries available to make it easy to…

Connectors & Integrations
Product Updates