Here at the Hive, we know that there’s nothing like getting your hands on something to see what using it to solve a problem is really like. In July, we launched the Gatekeeper tour, which walks you through the process of solving a real outage we experienced, using Honeycomb. That’s why we’re excited to launch a new place for you to play: the Tracing Tour at http://play.honeycomb.io.
Small and slow leaks sink ships – by analogy, slow and small leaks can also cause significant losses for any business if not detected and fixed early. Are small leaks interesting? Suppose an eCommerce business sees a decline of 50% of purchases in the last day – the entire company would be called in – from the CEO all the way to R&D, Support, to figure why it happened as quickly as possible.
Last year we introduced Live Tail — the ability to see a live feed of all the logs in your system, in real time, within Kibana. This ability to see a live stream of logs as they are being outputted from the different processes in a monitored environment was a greatly requested feature, and since being introduced we have received some excellent feedback from users that has allowed us to improve the basic functionality of Live Tail.