October 2018 Summaries

Charity Majors, CEO of Honeycomb, engaged in a conversation with Lisa Phillips, Fastly’s VP of Data Governance, to explore the importance of embracing messiness in data management, empowering customers to solve their own issues, and leveraging the potential of structured data.

Honeycomb has introduced a new Webhook Integration to enhance its Trigger system, allowing users to customize Trigger notifications to better suit their requirements. This new feature enables users to send Trigger notifications to a URL they control, receiving an HTTP POST with a JSON body containing details about the Trigger's state, the groups causing it to fire, and a link to the relevant Honeycomb graph. This flexibility means users can suppress recoveries, augment data with other systems, and choose how to receive notifications, such as posting to Slack or using other creative methods. To set up, users must write code to receive notifications and publish it online, then configure the Webhook Integration in the Honeycomb platform, providing a URL and authentication token. This development is aimed at addressing the need for customizable notifications without building complex UI solutions, granting users the freedom to tailor the system to their specific use cases.

Observability is a crucial concept that empowers individuals to thoroughly explore and understand complex systems by providing detailed insights. Rather than merely answering specific questions, it focuses on equipping users with the ability to delve into the intricacies of these systems. This approach emphasizes the importance of having detailed information at an appropriate level to facilitate a comprehensive exploration process.

Fastly, a leader in edge cloud platforms, partners with Honeycomb to enhance the observability of real-time data generated from its platform's instrumentation, which is crucial for digital businesses aiming to meet customer expectations with fast, secure, and scalable online experiences. By integrating Honeycomb's observability capabilities, Fastly enables businesses to gain insights into metrics such as cache hit ratios, response time differences, and specific URL traffic on a granular level, including per-IP and per-country analysis. This collaboration allows Fastly customers to easily incorporate Honeycomb as an endpoint for Real-Time Log Streaming, providing a more comprehensive view of their data. An example of this integration can be seen with the public dataset created in partnership with RubyGems, showcasing Fastly's Real-Time Log Stream within Honeycomb and offering detailed exploration of rubygems.org traffic.