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DBAs may be the last remaining priesthood in our industry. But software engineers and operations engineers are increasingly finding themselves responsible for precious company data, and DBAs are increasingly adopting generalist skillsets and best…
It’s time to shrug off the last vestiges of that martyr complex we’ve been trudging around with since the bad old days of the BOFH. We’ve got better things to do with our lives…
Observability is not a thing for operations or some other team to care about. Software engineers, you are increasingly the primary owners of your own services … and this is a great thing. Developers,…
Any mature production system is likely to have hundreds of thousands if not millions of metrics, most of which never get looked at by a human. Metrics and logs are no longer human-scale, they…
Hello friends! We need to talk – about Honeycomb, you, and the future. We’ve built this thing to help ourselves and one another deal with the future of software. It isn’t Yet Another Monitoring…
Ben Hartshorne
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…
Guest Blogger
Last week, I got a signup invite for Honeycomb. My consulting business has a website management platform with modest but steady traffic, about 30k req/day. I was interested in using Honeycomb to watch the…
Continued from How Honeycomb Uses Honeycomb, Part 1: The Long Tail. We recently released a new version of our API. As scarred veterans of building and supporting APIs, we made sure to retain backwards…
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…
Christine Yen
This post is the first in our series of “dogfooding” posts. At Honeycomb, we dogfood everything: we try to solve all our own problems using our own service. And like any young company, we’re…
Hello friends! It’s been about seven months since our first day of work, when we first said “hi” and asked for your feedback. We now have a new name, a real office, and the…
