Quarterly Product Update: Better Traces, CONCURRENCY, and RATE
Blog post from Honeycomb
Honeycomb has introduced several new features to enhance user experience and data analysis capabilities, as showcased during Honeycomb Developer Week. Users can now enjoy emoji support across various elements, such as query results and event payloads, while also benefiting from improved marker filtering to simplify data visualization. The trace view has been enhanced with features like span linking and error span highlighting to streamline issue detection. New aggregates, RATE and CONCURRENCY, offer advanced metric analysis, allowing users to track changes and simultaneous operations. Honeycomb Search facilitates easy navigation through datasets and saved queries, and Derived Columns in dataset definitions enable smoother data configuration. The Query Data API allows data extraction into third-party tools, expanding integration possibilities. These updates aim to improve system instrumentation, data analysis, and data portability, with more exciting developments anticipated in 2022.