Honeycomb is built for modern dev teams to better understand application performance, debug & improve log management.
Making your logs easy to query, filter, and visualize is the first step on the path to observability.
After spending 10 years at Google I thought I had a good handle on the different techniques to see what is going on with services. But Honeycomb changes the game by supporting fast exploration over high cardinality data. It has super powers over traditional monitoring.
We've been through a few metrics Products. When you try to break data down by high cardinality fields like customer app IDs, or even host IDs, it just kind of breaks their UIs and increases cost many times because everything is stored individually as separate time series.