Nine Reasons to Attend o11ycon+hnycon

You’ve probably seen the announcement about our upcoming annual conference, o11ycon+hnycon, happening June 9–10. If you’re still not registered, here’s a list of nine reasons to attend. 1. Highly interactive content Honeycomb isn’t your…

Easily Debug Your AWS Lambda Functions With Honeycomb

With the Honeycomb extension for AWS Lambda, you no longer need to make your Lambda functions Honeycomb-aware. Today, AWS announced the general availability of AWS Lambda Extensions, which make it easy for us to…

Learn About the Future of Shipping Software at o11ycon+hnycon

Have you registered for o11ycon+hnycon yet? If not, now’s the time! This highly interactive virtual event is happening June 9–10 and designed to connect you with your peers to explore cutting-edge observability practices. We’ve…

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…

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…

Announcing New Honeycomb Management API

Starting today, Honeycomb’s Management API is generally available to all Honeycomb users. The Honeycomb Management API is a set of endpoints that lets you programmatically set up, configure, and delete queries, datasets, derived columns,…

Lessons Learned From the Migration to Confluent Kafka

Over the last few months, Honeycomb’s platform team migrated to a new iteration of our ingest pipeline for customer events. Our migration to this newer architecture did not go too smoothly, as can be…

o11ycon+hnycon Call for Presentations

In case you missed it, Honeycomb is gearing up for our conference, o11ycon. Based on your feedback, we’re also adding a new day to that event this year: hnycon. o11ycon+hnycon is a two-day virtual…

One Year of Graviton2 at Honeycomb

A year ago, we wrote about our experiences as early adopters of Graviton2, and how we were able to see 30% price-performance improvements on one dogfood workload from switching to the arm64 architecture. In…

Uniting Tracing and Logs With OpenTelemetry Span Events

The current landscape of what our customers are dealing with in monitoring and observability can be a bit of a mess. For one thing, there are varying expectations and implementations when it comes to…

Event Latency: What It Is and Why You Should Care

Recently, we added a new derived column function to Honeycomb, INGEST_TIMESTAMP(), which can help customers debug event latency and/or inaccurate timestamps. A meaningful minority of the events sent to Honeycomb are already old when…

HoneyByte: Test Out Refinery Yourself!

This HoneyByte walks through how to get Refinery running locally to try out different configuration options and sampling methods.

Honeycomb Welcomes New VP of Product

I’m happy to announce that Megan Gleason, formerly Head of Product at Honeycomb, has been promoted to VP of Product. Prior to Honeycomb, Megan was Director of Product at both Auth0 and Chef Software….

Honeycomb Introduces Refinery, a New Solution to Optimize Observability for Enterprises at Scale

Refine Your Observability Experience at Scale

Today, we announced that Refinery is now generally available. With Refinery, it’s now easy to highlight the critical debugging data you need and to stop paying for the rest. Refinery is a sampling solution…

Sweetening Your Honey

Are you looking for a better way to troubleshoot, debug, and really see and understand what weird behavior is happening in production? Service-level objectives (SLOs) and observability can help you do all that—but they…

Show Your Query You Love It By Naming It

Honeycomb is all about collaboration: We believe that observability is a team sport, and we want to give you as many tools to help your team get the ball down the field (i.e., untangle…

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…

Honeycomb Raises $20 Million in Series B Funding

Honeycomb’s Strong Performance Drives $20 Million Series B Investment to Secure Leadership in Observability