Honeycomb Frontend Observability for Web AND Mobile Native is now live!
Now you can use Honeycomb to instrument native iOS and Android applications, and view their telemetry alongside of Web Applications in the Enterprise Launchpads.
Last week Honeycomb released support for mobile native devices alongside Web applications in its Frontend Observability enterprise offering. This release now allows organizations to tie together spans originating traces from Web, native iOS and native Android applications back to their invoked services for end-to-end tracing, and enables specific launchpads for Web, iOS and Android to get to the key issues surrounding each type of platform.
Some of the things you can now do:
- Use OpenTelemetry APIs in your browsers, iOS and Android devices to send traces, logs and even metrics to an OTLP destination, which, of course includes Honeycomb
- With Honeycomb's open source wrapper SDKs, instrument your application and get spans enriched with device and browser information, automatically
- Add your frontend-specific business attributes to help you in analysis, since Honeycomb doesn't charge by the attribute
- Combine the telemetry with the rest of the trace coming from your backend services to get to the real problem and, since Honeycomb doesn't charge a per-seat license, share that information across the organization to have a single view of the problem
- Avoid going from dashboard to dashboard in completely unrelated systems or pizza-box teams just to find out the cause of a problem
- Set SLOs and triggers on data that includes front-end-specific datasets. For example, making sure the p75 of a browser call duration of a particular crucial API call is < 2000ms when performed from a browser on a 4G network.
- Research user experience issues - if suddenly your application is showing lots of poor Cumulative Layout Shifts after a recent release, you can click on the poor part of the graph and do a quick bubble up to find out how those spans are different
There's a lot more, too. Check out our Honeycomb Frontend Observability page for details. I'm really excited to help get the word out. And you can always request office hours from me or other developer relation advocates for your specific challenges.