Articles by Ben Findley

Declaring check-ins in PHP/Laravel config

You can now configure your check-ins without leaving your codebase. No more tabbing between Honeybadger and your code to declare and set up check-ins.

Incident Management for Status Pages

Honeybadger's new incident management feature lets you report incidents in real time, schedule alerts for upcoming maintenance, or retroactively insert an update for past incidents.

Public Status Pages for Uptime Monitoring

A public status page conveys your service's health and availability to your internal and external users—fostering transparency and trust. We've launched a new status pages feature, adding support for custom domains and branding!

Announcing SSL Certificate Expiration Warnings

SSL-related outages are pretty common, and often happen when you forget to renew a certificate. Lucky for you, Honeybadger's Uptime Monitoring will now warn you before your certificates expire!

GitHub Student Developer Pack Holiday Challenge

Hey GitHub Student Developer Packers!

For the month of December, we are issuing a challenge to help you grow as a developer so you can crush bugs and deploy web apps with confidence using your free Honeybadger account.

If leveling-up your developer...

Lights, Camera, GitHub Actions!

Here at Honeybadger, we are big fans of GitHub Actions' workflow automation and CI/CD features. We like it so much that we decided to add two of our own contributions to the community!

Now you can trace stacks at light speed by uploading your source...

Introducing FounderQuest, Honeybadger's New Podcast!

What the heck is FounderQuest and what is it doing on the Honeybadger blog?

FounderQuest is a weekly podcast recorded and produced by the founders of Honeybadger, Ben, Starr, and Josh (these guys). It covers a wide range of topics centered around...

Honeybadger Has Joined Forces With GitHub Student Developer Pack!

Here at Honeybadger, we want to do our part to help student developers keep their apps free from errors. That’s why we are excited to offer our error monitoring, uptime and check-in monitoring tool free of charge to students that take advantage of the GitHub Student Developer Pack.

Harness Your Deployment Superpowers With Honeybadger's Orb For CircleCI

Using Honeybadger’s orb allows your team to easily track deployments as part of your workflow. Our orb will automatically include the SHA of the revision that was deployed, which we link in the Honeybadger UI to GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket, so you can see at a glance what got deployed and when.

PagerDuty Integration Reborn

Now you can use PagerDuty's event rules feature to suppress an event or change its severity based on data sent from Honeybadger. For instance, when an exception is sent to PagerDuty, you could set the severity to "critical" for a specific environment when fault.environment equals "production".

Honeybadger and Slack - Error Monitoring Awesomeness – Part Deux

Honeybadger and Slack have partnered up again and have been hard at work pushing error monitoring to the limit. Why? Because bugs and exceptions don't rest, and neither do Honeybadger and Slack. We’ve rebuilt the Slack integration.