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Aneel Lakhani
Many many of you have been asking when we’ll be “launched”, in “production”, taking “money”, or “GA”. Well, here you go! 🙂 A big THANKS to all our early users, our first paying customers,…
Peter Tuhtan
We recently connected with Honeycomb users over at Airtime, a new social video platform for iOS, Android, and desktop. Like many companies using Honeycomb, Airtime relies on a complex system of infrastructure and a…
Christine Yen
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…
Eben Freeman
One of many things I like about Go is how easy it is to instrument code. The built-in expvar package and third-party libraries such as rcrowley/go-metrics are delightfully simple to use. But metrics aren’t…
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…
Guest Blogger
When you’re debugging, there are two basic ways you can poke at something. You can: create new instrumentation (like “adding print statements”) use existing instrumentation (“look at print statements you already added”, “use Wireshark”)…
Charity Majors
This is the second post in our second week on instrumentation. Want more? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! Everybody talks about uptime, and any SLA…
Welcome to the second week of our blog post series on instrumentation, curated by Julia and Charity. This week will focus more on operational and practical examples; check out previous entries for awesome posts…
At Honeycomb, one of our foremost concerns (in our product as well as our customers’) is reliability. To that end, we have end-to-end (e2e) checks that run each minute, write a single data point…
This is the fifth in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! BrightRoll’s Realtime team is responsible for…
This is the second in a series of guest posts about instrumentation. Like it? Check out yesterday’s piece on the first four things you measure. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback! One of my…
Ben Hartshorne
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…
Note: this is the first in a series of guest posts about best practices and stories around instrumentation. Like it? Check out the other posts in this series. Ping Julia or Charity with feedback!…
This is the third of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, you’re tightly constrained when trying to explore data or debug problems; the second…
This is the second of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics. The first one explained how, by pre-aggregating, your flexibility is tightly constrained when trying to explore data or debug problems….
This is the first of three posts focusing on the limitations of pre-aggregated metrics, each corresponding to one of the “pre”, “aggregated”, and “metrics” parts of the phrase. The second can be found here….
Welcome! This will be a semi-regular series, where we answer frequently asked questions in short, digestible bites. Or if you prefer long philosophical essays about the future of observability, go here. Ten short questions…
Did you know you can do fun things with the MySQL slow query log, using the nothing but the AWS golang SDK for RDS? It’s true! In order to let you submit RDS logs…
As part of the process of building our RDS connector for Honeycomb, we ran it on our own database logs. A few neat things came out of the first 10 minutes of looking at…
Anchor post at the top of this week’s long series of “vision” posts, so everything doesn’t just appear backwards. 🙂 This week we set forth the case for why Honeycomb is the future. We’ve…
