How the adaptive_tail_sampling processor makes sampling decisions in the OpenTelemetry Collector: buffering, rules, samplers, and more.

See how Honeycomb's Canvas powers every stage of the AI agent feedback loop: instrument, investigate, prioritize, ship fixes, and prove they worked.

Charity Majors closes Honeycomb's AI Norms & Values series with the principles the company holds true, how it uses AI day to day, and its ethics stance on AI.

AI workloads produce novel, non-deterministic failures that monitoring can't predict. Here's why AI systems demand an observability-first approach.

How HiPages used Honeycomb to push job-posting API success from 93% to 99%, de-risk a major migration, and triple active users after adopting the Honeycomb MCP.

Boris Tane, David Poll, and Charity Majors debate whether AI is upending the SDLC in this O11yCon 2026 panel, moderated by Jessica Kerr.

Why one remote engineering manager chose to create space, not policy, as her team adapted to AI together.

A six-session live masterclass with Liz Fong-Jones, turning Observability Engineering into practice. Aug 3 – Oct 14, 2026.

Honeycomb is an observability platform that helps software engineering teams understand and debug their complex production systems. Pulse 2.0 interviewed Honeycomb co-founder and CEO Christine Yen to ...

Marco Aguero, Director of SRE at Zeta Global, shares how his team uses Honeycomb to understand system behavior, investigate complex issues, & operate reliably.

BubbleUp now surfaces AI-powered insights that highlight your most relevant correlations. Available now with Honeycomb Intelligence.

More Q&A from our live AMA with the authors of Observability Engineering, covering AI, telemetry, and where humans still need to be in the loop.

O11yDay London is where developers and engineering leaders come together to share what’s actually working: Real challenges, learnings, and outcomes.

A six-session live masterclass with Liz Fong-Jones, turning Observability Engineering into practice. Aug 3 – Oct 14, 2026.

For the third consecutive year, Honeycomb has been named a Visionary in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms.

Hear Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda, and Austin Parker answer your questions and discuss what's new in Observability Engineering, 2nd Edition.

IDC examines the agent observability announcements from Honeycomb's O11yCon and Innovation Week 2026, and what they signal for the future of observability.

James Governor talks with Charity Majors, Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb, about what AI is doing to engineering practices. Majors argues that non-determinism takes more discipline, not less, and ever...

A year ago, I wrote “It’s the End of Observability (and I Feel Fine). ” The upshot of that post was that AI was about to fundamentally change the way we approach systems design and operation in the ...

Hear Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda, and Austin Parker answer your questions and discuss what's new in Observability Engineering, 2nd Edition.

Honeycomb moved from a strained CI system to RWX, accelerating feedback loops by 45% and reducing overall build failures by 50%.

One of the hardest challenges facing platform teams is wrangling the rising volume of PRs looking to add drift to the systems we've invested in. It's impossible to catch them all, so it's more import...

This post was co-written with Staff Software Engineer Martin Holman . "Hello world, this is your agent speaking!

As of today, I’ve drafted this post upwards of 10 times—it’s old enough that the version I first started working on was called “Reflections on 1 Year of SRE Management” (I’m currently at 2. 5 years).

When your game holds Guinness World Records for the longest and the largest online battles in history—including a single fight with more than 8,600 players simultaneously—having observability tools yo...

AI agents are nondeterministic, multi-step, and opaque. When one fails in production, "the model said something weird" is the cheapest, most useless line in your incident postmortem.

The OpenTelemetry Collector is usually deployed as a long-running process: a sidecar, a DaemonSet, an EC2 instance, a docker container on my computer. It sits there listening for telemetry.

Let authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda, and Austin Parker explain how to apply Observability successfully in your organization.

Let authors Charity Majors, Liz Fong-Jones, George Miranda, and Austin Parker explain how to apply Observability successfully in your organization.

Old observability metrics like uptime and MTTR aren't enough anymore. Teams must connect technical signals to business outcomes, like savings and speed.

Catch Honeycomb at AWS Summit New York. See demos of observability with AI and for AI, and talk to our team about what actually shortens time-to-fix in production.

The 4th installment in our Graviton series. The methodology is the same: hold the workload constant, run both gens on the same K8s namespace concurrently.

The rise of token leaderboards to the death of token leaderboards at companies like Amazon seem to have taken place in less than three months.

Details On episode 91 of o11ycast, Ken Rimple and Jessica Kerr sit down with Janaki Vivrekar of Amplitude. Janaki shares how Amplitude is building AI-powered analytics agents, why evaluation framewor...