Honeycomb
Also known as honeycomb.io
American observability company: a platform for debugging live software through traces, logs and metrics.
At a glance
Who owns it
Investors include Headline, Scale Venture Partners and Insight Partners.
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Christine Yen (CEO) and Charity Majors (CTO)
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- Honeycomb is a San Francisco software company founded in 2016 by Christine Yen and Charity Majors, both formerly of Parse and Facebook.
- Its observability platform lets developers query telemetry from running applications, much of it sent through OpenTelemetry, to find out why software misbehaves.
- It runs on its own columnar database on Amazon Web Services.
Why it matters
- It popularised observability as a practice for software engineers, and its founders wrote the book on it.
Key facts
- Founded
- 20161
- Founders
- Christine Yen (CEO) and Charity Majors (CTO)1
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California1
- Ownership
- Private company, backed by venture capital1
- Product
- Observability platform: distributed tracing, logs and metrics, accepting OpenTelemetry data1
Who owns it
Investors include Headline, Scale Venture Partners and Insight Partners.
People
Led by
- Christine Yen
CEO 2
- Charity MajorsPerson
CTO 2
Founded by
- Charity MajorsPerson
- Christine Yen
Links
Sources
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