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www.honeycomb.io/blog

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6 ↓ vs 12 last year

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1.9 since 2022

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Title	Author	Published	Words	HN Pts
What Are Traces? A Developer’s Guide to Distributed Tracing	Rox Williams	2025-07-11	1,637	--
Aligning Business and Engineering Goals with Honeycomb SLOs	Priscilla Lam	2024-08-19	1,019	--
Implementing High-Cardinality Instrumentation in Frontend Apps	Winston Hearn	2025-01-16	1,322	--
Authors’ Cut—Structured Events Are the Basis of Observability	Liz Fong-Jones	2022-06-17	1,008	--
The Truth About “MEH-TRICS”	Charity Majors	2022-02-22	1,510	--
Authors’ Cut—Gear up! Exploring the Broader Observability Ecosystem of Cloud-Native, DevOps, and …	Liz Fong-Jones	2022-10-13	728	--
Ask Miss O11y: When should you delete instrumentation?	Charity Majors	2022-04-29	453	--
If it Wanted to, it Would: The Bitter Lesson for LLM Users	Hannah Henderson	2025-11-12	879	--
Enhancements to Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Deliver Greater Visibility, Smarter Control, and Lower …	Jessica Parsons	2025-11-19	643	--
Engineering Levels at Honeycomb: Avoiding the Scope Trap	Ben Darfler	2022-06-01	1,155	--
Escaping the Cost/Visibility Tradeoff in Observability Platforms	Fahim Zaman	2024-01-05	1,374	--
User Tips: Sending NGINX Logs to Honeycomb	Guest Blogger	2022-09-08	753	--
How to Get Infinite Custom Metrics For Free	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2024-10-03	1,010	--
OpenTelemetry Metrics Explained: A Guide for Engineers	Rox Williams	2025-02-26	1,273	--
Does AI Help Write Better Software, or Just… More Code?	Fahim Zaman	2025-03-05	1,010	--
What the Hell is Activity Anyway?	Martin Thwaites	2022-06-09	770	--
What Is a Telemetry Pipeline?	Mike Terhar	2025-04-04	2,359	--
Data Sovereignty and OpenTelemetry	Austin Parker	2024-02-06	1,177	--
How to Responsibly and Effectively Contribute to Open Source Using AI	Tyler Helmuth	2025-09-24	1,323	--
Ask Miss O11y: Making Sense of OpenTelemetry—Context	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2022-02-17	782	--
There Are No Repeat Incidents	Fred Hebert	2023-06-26	1,183	--
Scaling Ingest With Ingest Telemetry	Nathan Lincoln	2022-11-18	955	--
Expanding Access, Not Risk: Using the Read-Only Role in Honeycomb Teams	Jacob Newton	2025-11-14	408	--
Observability, Meet Natural Language Querying with Query Assistant	Phillip Carter	2023-05-03	1,973	--
5-Star OTel: OpenTelemetry Best Practices	Liz Fong-Jones	2022-10-27	1,402	--
2024 Wrapped: 6 Key Observability Trends	Rox Williams	2024-12-18	471	--
What Makes for a ‘Good’ Pair Programming Session?	Ruthie Irvin	2024-07-18	1,035	--
Honeycomb Observability Day London: A Jam-Packed Day of Great Talks	Ken Rimple	2025-06-18	669	--
Building a Resilient System: Our Journey to Observability at Intercom	Guest Blogger	2022-07-25	1,864	--
Honeycomb Signs Three-Year Strategic Collaboration Agreement with AWS to Accelerate AI Observability …	Julie Neumann	2025-12-03	542	--
Using Honeycomb for Frontend Observability to Improve Honeycomb	Winston Hearn	2024-10-02	846	--
Observing Core Web Vitals with OpenTelemetry	Purvi Kanal	2023-07-13	1,240	--
Simplify OpenTelemetry Pipelines with Headers Setter	Mike Terhar	2023-11-08	1,495	--
How We Manage Incident Response at Honeycomb	Fred Hebert	2023-02-21	1,977	--
Honeycomb Named a Leader in 2022 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Performance …	Harrison Calato	2022-06-10	616	--
startSpan vs. startActiveSpan	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2022-03-16	588	--
Deploy on Friday? How About Destroy on Friday! A Chaos Engineering Experiment …	Lex Neva	2024-07-16	2,080	--
Slicing Up—and Iterating on—SLOs	Fred Hebert	2025-02-19	780	--
Syncing PagerDuty Schedules to Slack Groups	Fred Hebert	2024-09-30	781	--
Honeycomb Supports Service Ownership	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2022-06-21	546	--
Real User Monitoring With a Splash of OpenTelemetry	Austin Parker	2024-04-17	1,241	--
Your Questions About AI Agents and Production Feedback Answered	Austin Parker	2026-04-10	2,047	--
The Incident Retrospective Ground Rules	Lex Neva	2022-11-23	960	--
Shifting Metrics Right	Martin Thwaites	2026-03-17	1,191	--
What Is Auto-Instrumentation?	Mike Goldsmith	2022-01-11	1,279	--
Honeycomb Introduces the Developer Interface of the Future with AI-Native Observability Suite	Julie Neumann	2025-09-11	549	--
The "Meh-trics" Reloaded: Why I Was 100% Wrong About Metrics (and Also …	Charity Majors	2025-11-19	2,376	--
Measure What Matters	Jamie Danielson	2024-12-16	1,361	--
Ask Miss O11y: Making Sense of OpenTelemetry: Who’s There? The Resource.	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2022-03-04	493	--
5 Ways You Can Utilize Observability to Make Your Next Migration Easier	Rebecca Carter	2023-05-31	974	--
Ask Miss O11y: Error: missing ‘x-honeycomb-dataset’ header	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2023-03-09	319	--
Debugging INP With Honeycomb for Frontend Observability	Winston Hearn	2024-09-23	1,916	--
How We Saved 70% of CPU and 60% of Memory in Refinery’s …	Ian Wilkes	2025-10-09	976	--
Generalists vs. Specialists: Figuring Out Your Path	MJ Jayaraman	2023-04-04	842	--
Is Your Observability Strategy Boardroom-Ready?	Colin Burke	2025-07-02	597	--
Iterating Our Way Toward a Service Map	Jessica McElroy	2023-02-17	1,210	--
Ask Miss O11y: Pre-production Environments	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2022-01-28	321	--
Building a Secure OpenTelemetry Collector	Martin Thwaites	2024-01-09	1,026	--
Collecting Kubernetes Data Using OpenTelemetry	Tyler Helmuth	2023-06-07	759	--
Frontend Debugging Is Bad and it Should Feel Bad	Winston Hearn	2024-03-28	2,196	--
Achieving Great Dynamic Sampling with Refinery	Irving Popovetsky	2023-04-18	2,359	--
The Future of Observability is Bright as Honeycomb Announces $50M in Series …	Christine Yen	2023-04-06	1,332	--
What’s Special About MCP?	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2025-11-24	686	--
Honeycomb Launches New Private Cloud Offering to Address Security, Compliance, and Cost …	Julie Neumann	2025-11-19	862	--
Restructuring How We Think About Alerts	Fred Hebert	2025-01-28	1,540	--
Authors’ Cut—No More Pipeline Blues: Accelerate CI/CD with Observability	Liz Fong-Jones	2022-09-06	833	--
Action Recommended: OpenTelemetry HTTP Attributes Breaking Changes	Phillip Carter	2023-12-12	928	--
Get More Out of OpenTelemetry With Honeycomb’s Latest Updates	Phillip Carter	2022-10-17	882	--
Sense and Signals	Nick Travaglini	2022-09-27	756	--
OpenTelemetry Best Practices #2: Agents, Sidecars, Collectors, Coded Instrumentation	Martin Thwaites	2024-03-14	836	--
Honeycomb Launches Frontend Observability Solution	Kate Guarente-Smith	2024-09-24	553	--
Monitoring Windows Servers With the OpenTelemetry Collector	Martin Thwaites	2025-01-06	1,339	--
Understanding OpenTelemetry’s Browser Instrumentation	Winston Hearn	2024-05-07	1,381	--
The Next Era of Observability: Founders’ Reflections - Additional Q&A	Rox Williams	2026-02-19	2,017	--
Introducing Native Mobile Support in Honeycomb for Frontend Observability	Elsie Phillips	2025-05-19	1,188	--
Wiring Up a Next.js Self-Hosted Application to Honeycomb	Ken Rimple	2025-02-17	2,163	--
Refinery and EMA Sampling	Kent Quirk	2024-10-01	1,549	--
An Engineer’s Bill of Rights and Responsibilities	Charity Majors	2022-08-10	617	--
Against Incident Severities and in Favor of Incident Types	Fred Hebert	2024-11-04	1,778	--
Is OpenTelemetry Open for Business? September 2024 Update	Austin Parker	2024-09-16	1,414	--
The Future of Ops Is Platform Engineering	Charity Majors	2022-09-30	2,079	--
The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling	Charity Majors	2024-01-24	2,589	--
Leveraging Cognitive Diversity to Tackle System Complexity	Nick Travaglini	2026-03-23	1,196	--
On Counting Alerts	Fred Hebert	2022-07-08	2,066	--
Observing Core Web Vitals with OpenTelemetry: Part Two	Purvi Kanal	2024-04-04	812	--
Reporting Exceptions to Honeycomb with Frontend Observability	Ken Rimple	2025-12-15	1,408	--
Beyond Backend: Honeycomb for Frontend Observability is Now GA	Winston Hearn	2024-09-24	1,212	--
Observability, Telemetry, and Monitoring: Learn About the Differences	Rox Williams	2024-05-08	1,825	--
Three Properties of Data to Make LLMs Awesome	Phillip Carter	2024-02-20	1,827	--
What Is Observability? Key Components and Best Practices	Emil Protalinski	2025-11-12	2,855	--
Authors’ Cut—Not-So-Distant Early Warning: Making the Move to Observability-Driven Development	Martin Thwaites	2022-08-12	792	--
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: Three Companies Check Into OTel Observability	Phillip Carter	2022-09-28	1,221	--
Observability: It’s Every Engineer’s Job, Not Just Ops’ Problem	Martin Thwaites	2025-04-09	1,038	--
Much Ado About OpenTelemetry	Alex Boten	2024-02-28	307	--
Stop Logging the Request Body!	Martin Thwaites	2025-02-10	837	--
Get the Big Picture: Learn How to Visually Debug Your Systems with …	Rebecca Carter	2023-02-06	526	--
Deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector to AKS	Martin Thwaites	2024-08-07	821	--
Create a Custom Service Health Board With the Honeycomb MCP	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2026-03-09	779	--
Ask Miss O11y: Observability Without Manual Tracing	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2022-01-14	597	--
Send a Test Span Through an OpenTelemetry Collector	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2022-08-18	875	--
Introducing PrivateLink Support for Enterprise	Matt Ransford	2022-10-21	288	--
Ask Miss O11y: How Can I Add o11y to Databases?	Charity Majors	2022-01-06	1,223	--
Observability for New Teams: Part 1	Josh Levin	2022-04-26	1,401	--
There Is Only One Key Difference Between Observability 1.0 and 2.0	Charity Majors	2024-11-19	1,933	--
Ask Miss O11y: OpenTelemetry in the Front End: Tracing Across Page Load	Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)	2022-02-25	306	--
Tapping Into the Hive Mind: Sharing Query History	Jessica McElroy	2022-02-02	445	--
Canvas Is Now GA: AI-Guided Observability for Modern Teams	Morgante Pell	2025-11-19	642	--
Ask Miss O11y: Pls ELI5 TLAs like PRO, SRE, and SLOs!	Liz Fong-Jones	2022-04-07	874	--
OpAMP Explained: Why OpenTelemetry Needed an Agent Management Protocol (and How We …	Tyler Helmuth	2026-01-13	785	--
AIOps: Prove It!	Lex Neva	2025-01-21	653	--
Getting Started With Log Management	Rox Williams	2024-09-06	1,073	--
What Is Full-Stack Observability?	Rox Williams	2024-08-22	819	--
ICYMI: Achieving Visibility in Your CI/CD Pipeline With Honeycomb + CircleCI	Guest Blogger	2022-02-11	616	--
Authors’ Cut—Shifting Cultural Gears: How to Show the Business Value of Observability	George Miranda	2022-10-11	1,319	--
Introducing Honeycomb Private Cloud	Emily Nakashima	2025-11-19	963	--
MCP, Easy as 1-2-3?	Austin Parker	2025-04-14	2,256	--

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