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…
Honeycomb's support team uses its own Canvas and MCP tools to debug internal telemetry, reducing time spent on query mechanics and accelerating customer issue resolution. The shift from manual query b…
EZLogs launched a plain-English activity logging tool for Rails and Next.js applications that records every request, background job, and database change, then translates each chain of events into read…
Honeycomb's closing keynote at O11yCon argued that the primary reader of telemetry data is no longer a human but an automated process, rendering traditional observability frameworks obsolete. The talk…
In a two-part episode recorded at HumanX, Honeycomb CEO Christine Yen discusses how AI compresses the software development lifecycle, shifting observability's focus to capturing the right telemetry. R…