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Honeycomb CCP Games Case Study

Feb 13, 2024 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb
Imagine a universe in which a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) sets Guinness World Records for the size of its online space battles—and that game is built on 20-year-old code. Well, imagine no more. Welcome to the world of EVE Online, where hundreds of thousands of players interact across 7,800+ star systems and participate in more than one million daily market transactions. As you might guess, updating and maintaining this codebase without interrupting game play could pose quite a challenge.
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Data Sovereignty and OpenTelemetry

Feb 6, 2024 By Austin Parker In Honeycomb
In today’s economic and regulatory environment, data sovereignty is increasingly top of mind for observability teams. The rules and regulations surrounding telemetry data can often be challenging to interpret, leaving many teams in the dark about what kind of data they can capture, how long it can be stored, and where it has to reside. In the past, addressing these issues at scale was a costly endeavor.
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Where Does Honeycomb Fit in the Software Development Lifecycle?

Feb 2, 2024 By Jessica Kerr In Honeycomb
“Mommy, where does software come from?” “Software grows in a circle, just like this!” The software development lifecycle (SDLC) is always drawn as a circle. In many places I’ve worked, there’s no discernable connection between “5. Operate” and “1. Plan.” However, at Honeycomb, there is. More on that later.
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Avoid Stubbing Your Toe on Telemetry Changes

Feb 1, 2024 By Mike Terhar In Honeycomb
When you have questions about your software, telemetry data is there for you. Over time, you make friends with your data, learning what queries take you right to the error you want to see, and what graphs reassure you that your software is serving users well. You build up alerts based on those errors. You set business goals as SLOs around those graphs.
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Now Available: Honeycomb Launches Data Residency in Europe

Jan 29, 2024 By Rox Williams In Honeycomb
At Honeycomb, we are very concerned about privacy and data sovereignty—it’s something we take very seriously, and in an effort to serve our customers better, we’re thrilled to announce that we now offer data residency in Europe. This new instance will allow Honeycomb customers to store their data in the US, in Europe, or both. Let’s talk about the details.
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The Cost Crisis in Observability Tooling

Jan 24, 2024 By Charity Majors In Honeycomb
The cost of services is on everybody’s mind right now, with interest rates rising, economic growth slowing, and organizational budgets increasingly feeling the pinch. But I hear a special edge in people’s voices when it comes to their observability bill, and I don’t think it’s just about the cost of goods sold.
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Alerts Are Fundamentally Messy

Jan 19, 2024 By Fred Hebert In Honeycomb
Good alerting hygiene consists of a few components: chasing down alert conditions, reflecting on incidents, and thinking of what makes a signal good or bad. The hope is that we can get our alerts to the stage where they will page us when they should, and they won’t when they shouldn’t. However, the reality of alerting in a socio-technical system must cater not only to the mess around the signal, but also to the longer term interpretation of alerts by people and automation acting on them.
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Effective Trace Instrumentation with Semantic Conventions

Jan 18, 2024 By Jeremy Blythe In Honeycomb
There’s plenty of literature on the mechanics of instrumenting code with OpenTelemetry and delivering it to Honeycomb. However, I’ve not found many guides on the craft of instrumenting code in order to have a good observability experience in your system. A lot of focus is placed on automatic instrumentation—which is great, particularly if you’re new to observability or retrofitting—but it misses the power of good instrumentation at the application level.
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How We Leveraged the Honeycomb Network Agent for Kubernetes to Remediate Our IMDS Security Finding

Jan 12, 2024 By Cat Litten In Honeycomb

Picture this: It’s 2 p.m. and you’re sipping on coffee, happily chugging away at your daily routine work. The security team shoots you a message saying the latest pentest or security scan found an issue that needs quick remediation. On the surface, that’s not a problem and can be considered somewhat routine, given the pace of new CVEs coming out. But what if you look at your tooling and find it lacking when you start remediating the issue?

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Building a Secure OpenTelemetry Collector

Jan 9, 2024 By Martin Thwaites In Honeycomb

The OpenTelemetry Collector is a core part of telemetry pipelines, which makes it one of the parts of your infrastructure that must be as secure as possible. The general advice from the OpenTelemetry teams is to build a custom Collector executable instead of using the supplied ones when you’re using it in a production scenario. However, that isn’t an easy task, and that prompted me to build something.

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