Honeycomb (company)

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  • Honeycomb
  • honeycomb.io
Company typePrivate
IndustrySoftware development tooling
Founded2016; 8 years ago (2016)
Founders
  • Christine Yen (CEO)
  • Charity Majors (CTO)
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
,
United States
ProductsHoneycomb
ServicesSaaS observability platform
Websitewww.honeycomb.io

Honeycomb (stylized as honeycomb.io) is an American software company known for its eponymous observability and application performance management (APM) platform and for its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices. Honeycomb's venture capital investors to date include Headline, Scale Venture Partners, and Insight Partners.[1][2][3][4]

Honeycomb's tooling enables software developers to debug live software applications, especially those using a microservice architecture.[5][1] Honeycomb accepts telemetry from applications instrumented with the OpenTelemetry SDKs, in addition to Structured JSON data or other custom integrations.[6][7][8] Honeycomb offers metrics and tracing visualizations as well as AI-assisted debugging capabilities.[9][3][10][11][12] The underlying software is a proprietary columnar database running on Amazon Web Services. Amazon has promoted the company as an early adopter of the Graviton family of ARM processors.[13][14]

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  6. ^ "OpenTelemetry becomes a CNCF incubating project". Cloud Native Computing Foundation. 26 August 2021. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  7. ^ Gain, B. Cameron (23 December 2022). "Observability in 2022: It Pays to Learn". The New Stack. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  8. ^ Krill, Paul (2016-11-03). "Ex-Facebook, Dropbox engineers offer debugging as a service". InfoWorld. Retrieved 2023-05-19.
  9. ^ Pariseau, Beth (3 May 2023). "Observability maven 'cranky' about AIOps embraces GPT". TechTarget IT Operations. Retrieved 10 October 2023.
  10. ^ Vizard, Mike (3 May 2023). "Honeycomb Taps ChatGPT to Simplify Observability". DevOps.com. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  11. ^ Jackson, Joab (18 May 2023). "With ChatGPT, Honeycomb Users Simply Say What They're Looking for". The New Stack. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  12. ^ Vizard, Michael (10 June 2021). "Honeycomb adds metrics to observability platform for service request tracking". VentureBeat. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  13. ^ Jackson, Joab (15 July 2022). "This Week in Programming: Honeycomb's ARM Advantage". The New Stack. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  14. ^ Tiernan, Ray (12 July 2022). "Amazon AWS announces Cloud WAN, 'one console to manage everything'". ZDNET. Retrieved 13 October 2023.