Get Started with Honeycomb for Applications

Honeycomb is a fast analysis tool that helps you analyze your code’s performance and behavior to troubleshoot complex relationships within your system to solve problems faster.

To use Honeycomb, you first need to get your system’s observable external outputs (logs, traces, and metrics) into Honeycomb.

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Not ready to instrument and deploy an application, but want to see what Honeycomb can do for you? Check out this interactive demo that requires no setup, or learn what is possible from the guided tutorials in our Honeycomb sandbox!
Get Started with Unstructured Logs

Get up and running with Honeycomb for your unstructured logs. Learn how Honeycomb treats unstructured data, explore methods of sending unstructured logs to Honeycomb, and get resources related to enhancing and exploring your data once it is in Honeycomb.

Get Started with Structured Logs

Get up and running with Honeycomb for your structured logs. Learn how Honeycomb treats structured data, explore methods of sending structured logs to Honeycomb, and get resources related to enhancing and exploring your data once it is in Honeycomb.

Get Started with Traces

Get up and running with Honeycomb for your traces and wide events. Learn how to easily add instrumentation and use Honeycomb to observe and understand your application.

Get Started with Frontend Observability

Get up and running with Honeycomb for Frontend Observability. Learn how to add instrumentation, send browser data to Honeycomb, and use Honeycomb to observe and understand your data. Honeycomb’s Web Instrumentation package is built on OpenTelemetry and makes it easy to get rich tracing data from your web services.

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