How Refinery Helps With Sampling Complex Event Data

Sampling is the practice of extracting a subset of data from a dataset to make conclusions about that larger dataset. It’s far from a perfect solution, but when it’s implemented with Refinery, Honeycomb’s trace-aware…

Honeycomb Empowers Teams With Complete Insight Into the Production Experience for Their Users With the Addition of Honeycomb Metrics

Metrics now generally available in Honeycomb

Join us for a live tour & Q&A session on Honeycomb Metrics. Ready to get hands-on? Honeycomb Metrics is already included in Enterprise subscriptions. Existing Free or Pro customers can request an Enterprise trial to try…

Observability: The 5-Year Retrospective

What Is Honeycomb’s ROI? Forrester’s Study on the Benefits of Observability

Register for the webinar and download the full study to see and apply Forrester’s financial model to determine the observability ROI for your organization.  Many teams want to adopt observability and Honeycomb—but run into…

Honeycomb Is All-In on OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry (or “OTel”) helps you get your instrumentation started quickly, and it helps you get the most out of that telemetry data by providing flexible exporting options. As a result, it’s emerging as the…

Why Observability Requires a Distributed Column Store

Honeycomb is known for its incredibly fast performance: you can sift through billions of rows, comparing high-cardinality data across thousands of fields, and get fast answers to your queries. And none of that is…

Tale of the Beagle (Or It Doesn’t Scale—Except When It Does)

If there’s one thing folks working in internet services love saying, it’s: Yeah, sure, but that won’t scale. It’s an easy complaint to make, but in this post, we’ll walk through building a service…

How Vanguard used Observability to Accelerate and De-risk their Cloud Migration

Rich Anakor, chief solutions architect at Vanguard, is on a small team with a big goal: Give Vanguard customers a better experience by enabling internal engineering teams to better understand their massively complex production…

Improving Our Typography to Optimize the Honeycomb User Experience

This is the second post in our series about Lattice, Honeycomb’s new design system and how we’re applying a user-centric design philosophy to our product.  Lattice begin! At Honeycomb, we understand that our users…

How Slack Transformed Their CI With Tracing

Slack experienced meteoric growth between 2017 and 2020—but that level of growth came with growing pains. In his talk at the 2021 o11ycon+hnycon, Frank Chen (LinkedIn), a Slack Senior Staff Engineer, detailed one of Slack’s…

Shipping on a Spent Error Budget

Modern software services are expected to be highly available, and running a service with minimal interruptions requires a certain amount of reliability-focused engineering work. At the same time, teams also need to build new…

Designing Honeycomb for Our Users

You might have noticed some visual changes happening in Honeycomb lately. Colors, typography, icons, and some features have started to look a bit different. While these changes are just beginning to make their way…

Data Availability Isn’t Observability

But it’s better than nothing… Most of the industry is racing to adopt better observability practices, and they’re discovering lots of power in being able to see and measure what their systems are doing….

Growing Adoption of Observability Powers Business Transformation

Honeycomb Releases the 2021 Observability Maturity Community Research Findings

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…

Honeycomb Metrics modernizes the use of metrics for debugging cloud-native distributed systems

A New Approach to Metrics

Today at o11ycon+hnycon—right now, actually, if you’re reading this blog when it was posted—we’re announcing several new Honeycomb features during the keynote. Our industry and community have come a long way since we burst…

The Least Worst Online Conference Ever

I am sick of online events. I can barely rouse myself to give a shit about one more virtual conference. They all start to feel the same … the same 45-minute pre-recorded talks, over…