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Many of these questions were unthinkable before we had the tooling and the mental framework to ask them. Is the increase in erroring jobs correlated with a particular programming language? What is a sample job id that we can use to dig deeper?.How do job boot times correlate with the image being used? Are some shards or regions slower than others?.Which open-source users are using our product the most? Are there any bitcoin miners in there that we should shut down?.Which customers are the most heavy users of our service? Are they experiencing wait times? Can we improve their experience? Would they have a better experience on a higher-tier plan?.Better yet, we can get more insight into how our customers are using our product. Queries that would take half an hour to run against our Postgres read-replica can now be run in seconds. So many questions that we were unable to explore in the past are now 3 clicks away.

There is definitely a bit of a learning curve, but it is so worth it. It is difficult to appreciate this level of observability when you have not experienced it yourself. We evaluated various products in the APM / monitoring space. Ability to control cost, per-request or per-host pricing could often become prohibitively expensive.We need to be able to look at specific samples to see what outliers have in common.

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We need to be able to see the full latency distribution, not just averages or arbitrary percentiles.

PerformanceĪnother big part of wanting to improve visibility into system behaviour was to more effectively debug performance issues. It became clear that we needed something better. But the interface to this is usually scrolling through a wall of text.Īnd as a result, even though the information for answering the above questions is present, the tooling makes it very difficult to do so.

In a sense, logs contain the raw information that metrics are derived from. Logs contain all of the high cardinality information, and if you know what you’re looking for, this can be extremely useful. Which IPs are sending us the most traffic?Īnother important source of data are our logs.How many users are affected by this issue? Which ones?.This makes it impossible to use metrics to answer questions such as: However, correlation is only possible across a narrow set of dimensions. These tell us about the quality of service, via The Four Golden Signals. On the one hand, we have low-cardinality metrics. This would allow us to see what was happening (or so we thought), but not why. In the past, we mostly monitored and debugged our production system through metrics and logs. I’d like to share how Honeycomb has changed the way we operate Travis CI. Debugging a customer’s build, investigating a service degradation or outage, or prioritizing our engineering work was difficult without explorable data. Later, it was brought more fully to life with a bigger campaign that saw voice actor Frank Simms and a team of ad directors tweak the character until it properly took form.At Travis CI, we run over 3 million builds per week across three cloud providers with vastly different operating systems and execution environments. In his history of the Clockwork Orange-eyed rodent, we learn that it was originally a puppet/CGI hybrid created by Industrial Light & Magic. Undeterred, Doplex still managed to track down more information than can be reasonably expected to exist regarding The Craver. The Craver has completely vanished from Honeycomb’s official website and, when Doplex sends a media inquiry to Honeycomb PR, he’s told that the company has “lost some historical information” over years of changing ownership. The mascot comes to life in commercials where children experience a hunger so all consuming that they transform, werewolf-like, into a furry, cereal-mad creature that shouts “Me want Honeycomb!” until its demands are met.ĭespite The Craver being the star of a big advertising campaign, Doplex has a hard time finding information about its origin story. “The Honeycomb Craver” or “Crazy Craving”) is described by Doplex as “a horrifying abomination that god left unfinished and one that the world and his creators want you to forget.” This may sound harsh, but revisiting footage of The Craver backs up the description.

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