HONEYCOMB-EDI

Observability specialised in correlating distributed events.

Definition

Honeycomb implements Charity Majors observability model: high-cardinality events (each trace carries n attributes), ad-hoc queries without precomputed aggregates. Ideal to answer unexpected questions like "for partner X complaining, what is the p99 latency per EDIFACT segment?".

Origin

Founded in 2016 by Charity Majors and Christine Yen, former Parse/Facebook engineers.

Example in context

A Honeycomb session showing late MDNs correlated to parser version 6.2, deployed yesterday.

Related terms

• OpenTelemetry — tracing standard used by Honeycomb.