Honeycomb has shipped a production integration with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, surfacing agent telemetry in its Agent Timeline tool. The company chose AgentCore for its modularity and production-grade …
AWS made Graviton5-powered M9g and M9gd instances generally available on June 10, featuring 192 ARM cores and the first formally verified VM isolation in commercial cloud history. The new instances de…
Honeycomb's Charity Majors defends AI mandates as a necessary tool for funding and executing coordinated change on tight timelines, arguing that without mandates, companies signal AI is not a priority…
Reid Savage, an engineering manager at Honeycomb, reflects on his first year leading the SRE team, emphasizing the importance of investing in relationships, seeking feedback, and distinguishing betwee…
At O11yCon, engineering teams from Mixpanel, Gem, and StarSling reported using AI to boost code velocity by up to 50%, with observability tools like Honeycomb critical for managing the increased volum…
Honeycomb released the second edition of Observability Engineering, a near-complete rewrite addressing AI-era challenges like validating AI-generated code in production and the risk of shipping faster…
Honeycomb released a technical guide on instrumenting AI agents with OpenTelemetry's GenAI semantic conventions to enable debugging via the Agent Timeline, which captures tool calls, multi-agent hando…
Honeycomb's engineering team redesigned their parallel test execution system to prevent database collisions when multiple pytest invocations run concurrently against the same PostgreSQL host. The fix …
A developer advocates instrumenting AI agent decision tracing with OpenTelemetry to enable rapid incident response. The approach uses spans to capture reasoning, context, and tool executions, making a…
Honeycomb's Austin Parker argues that AI fundamentally changes observability by enabling custom dashboards and visualizations via prompts, reducing reliance on generic tools. The article demonstrates …
A developer at a voice agent company traced a 1.4-second dead-air incident on a customer call, discovering that the latency was invisible in standard APM traces. The gap occurred between turn-detectio…
AWS launched Graviton5 processors with 192 cores, DDR5-8800 memory, and formally verified VM isolation, powering new M9g and M9gd instances. Meta, Uber, and Snowflake are deploying the chips for agent…
Honeycomb conducted scheduled Kafka maintenance on May 4 (EU) and May 7 (US), 2026, replacing a decade-old cluster with a newer, more scalable one. The maintenance caused up to 90 minutes of query dow…
Honeycomb announced the general availability of Agent Timeline, a tool that provides a unified view of LLM behavior and multi-agent workflows to help developers debug agent conversations faster. The f…
The second edition of Observability Engineering is available for download, sponsored by Honeycomb. Authors Charity Majors and team wrote the book amid the generative AI boom, emphasizing that AI is no…
Observability teams must shift from traditional metrics like uptime and MTTR to measuring business outcomes, as complex AI-driven systems make degraded experiences more costly than outages. A roundtab…
A developer reports that AI is transforming production debugging by rapidly reading and correlating heterogeneous signals, with tools like Datadog's Bits AI SRE claiming time-to-resolution wins of up …
Honeycomb migrated a portion of its production shared compute pool from AWS Graviton4 (m8g.8xlarge) to Graviton5 (m9g.8xlarge), running both generations side by side for 60 days. Every measured servic…
The OpenTelemetry Collector can be packaged as a Lambda container image and fronted with a Function URL, enabling intermittent telemetry processing at near-zero cost. The architecture uses the AWS Lam…
Lunch Pail Labs has integrated Honeycomb traces into its AI Slack agent Pipa to solve the black-box problem when the bot fails. The agent, which runs in E2B sandboxes using OpenCode, now sends OpenTel…