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!

FounderQuest S2 E9 | Is It Time For The Big Rewrite?

This week on FounderQuest Josh, Starr, and Ben talk about the quandary of not knowing how to build something until after you’ve already built it. Therefore, once it's built it can be hard to fight the urge to build it again taking into account all...

FounderQuest S2 E8 | The 2019 Thanksgiving Freestyle Episode

This week on FounderQuest things get wild and the guys throw the show notes out the window. They are kicking it freestyle on this special Thanksgiving episode. All of today’s hard-hitting questions are answered: 

Dark meat or light meat?  Turkey...

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...

FounderQuest S2 E7 | Is Offering A Free Plan Worth The Hassle?

This week on FounderQuest, Josh is back and shares his hot takes from RubyConf in Nashville. Be wary of the ghost pepper oil!

There’s no such thing as a free lunch, however, there is such a thing as a free Honeybadger plan. The guys talk about their...

FounderQuest S2 E6 | Marketing On Marketplaces

Ben and Starr are putting the entire weight of FounderQuest on their backs this week as they forge ahead without Josh for this episode. Fear not listener, just because it's two-thirds of the presenters doesn't mean you aren't getting a full serving...

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...

FounderQuest S2 E5 | Should You Comply With Compliance?

On this week's episode of FounderQuest Josh, Ben, and Starr talk about their SOC 2 and GDPR compliance efforts. They go over the different strategies to handle compliance, the potential costs involved, and discuss if it's worth the time and money.

Introducting 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.