Feature Focus: October 2022

October was a busy month for Honeycomb, featuring significant updates and new integrations aimed at enhancing user experience and functionality. Key developments included the launch of the Service Map feature, which provides dynamic architecture diagrams from telemetry data, and a substantial overhaul of the BubbleUp tool for identifying common dimensions in problematic events. Honeycomb also introduced a new integration with ServiceNow for quicker issue diagnosis and a Gradle plugin for automatic OpenTelemetry trace generation. Documentation updates were released to facilitate migration from Honeycomb Classic to the new Environments model, and support for OpenTelemetry logs was introduced. Honeycomb expanded its CI/CD capabilities with buildevents, offering integration guides for CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and GitLab CI/CD, and announced the general availability of its .NET OpenTelemetry distribution. Additionally, user experience improvements were made, including updates to the derived columns editor and options for sending logs or traces. The full list of updates is available in Honeycomb's changelog and related platforms.