The Honeybadger developer blog

Tutorials, product info and good advice from the Honeybadger crew.

Uptime and API Monitoring Improvements

Here at Honeybadger we want to give you a complete picture of your application's health. That's why we include uptime & latency monitoring with all our plans. We've been hard at work making our uptime system even better; making it suitable not only to check web pages, but also APIs.

Introducing our new search query builder

If you're a regular Honeybadger user, you may have noticed that search looks a little different. We recently launched a new query builder that not only looks better, but also makes it a snap to construct advanced search queries.

Cleanly Scaling Sidekiq

When your autoscaling group terminates instances running Sidekiq, you should finish the Sidekiq jobs before the instance gets terminated. This is how we do that at Honeybadger.

Shipping in 2017: Feature Roundup

A roundup of our favorite features we've shipped so far in 2017.

New Features: Source Map Upload and More

Honeybadger now supports uploaded source maps via a new API. We've also added a UI to view source maps for each project, released a new version of honeybadger.js, and improved error grouping for JavaScript projects.

New monitoring feature: Check-Ins

Check-Ins allow you to monitor jobs and services by pinging a Honeybadger URL periodically. If you ever stop "checking in", Honeybadger will alert you.

Just Launched: Search Improvements!

Big improvements are coming to search at Honeybadger! To kick things off, we're proud to announce (drumroll please) a date picker! This is only the first in a series of planned search UI improvements, which you can read about inside.

Replacing a Complex Regular Expression with a Simple Parser

When we have to work with text, we often reach for regular expressions. But they're not the easiest solution to every problem. Recently I was struggling with a large regexp, when I realized it'd be less work to write a parser. This article explains the process.
  • author photo By Starr Horne
  • #ruby
  • Jun 27, 2017

The Rubyist's Guide to Memoization

This article covers one of my favorite techniques for improving performance: memoization. It's a source of easy little performance wins that eventually add up and only occasionally reduce your application to a heap of smoldering rubble. Only very occasionally.
  • author photo By Starr Horne
  • #ruby
  • Apr 5, 2017

Building Documentation with Gulp, Docco and LiveReload

In this post I discuss how to "modernize" a Docco workflow by adding a development server with live-reload.
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