One Year of Graviton2 at Honeycomb

Honeycomb's adoption of Graviton2 has resulted in significant improvements in performance and cost-efficiency, with 92% of their vCPUs now running on the arm64 architecture. This transition, which required minimal codebase changes and primarily involved updating their CI pipeline, has allowed Honeycomb to reduce their ingest workload costs by over 40% compared to previous setups. The company also enhanced their Amazon Machine Image and Chef recipes and developed arm64-compatible agents like honeytail and honeyvent, benefiting the broader community by ensuring tools like osquery and the OpenTelemetry Collector are tested on arm64. The move to Graviton2 facilitated a smoother transition to M1 Apple Silicon Macs for developers and improved performance per thread for their query engine without doubling costs. Their experience has demonstrated that Graviton2 is effective for compute-bound workloads, and Honeycomb supports its integration for enterprise users. Honeycomb plans to further showcase how Graviton2 has enabled them to manage increased traffic while maintaining reliability, latency, and cost-efficiency.