Articles by Joshua Wood

Curated dashboards in Honeybadger

With all your data in one place, Honeybadger is quickly becoming the only monitoring tool you need to keep your web applications healthy and your users happy—and with curated dashboards, it's never been easier to get started!

Blue Ridge Ruby is exactly what we need

This year's Blue Ridge Ruby conference in Asheville, North Carolina, was not only a wonderful experience but also highlighted the opportunity (and what's at stake) in the Ruby community.

Visualizing Ahoy analytics in Rails

Honeybadger co-founder Joshua Wood explains how to graph Ahoy page views in Rails with Chartkick, with a preview of our upcoming observability tool—Insights!

Enterprise features for Public Status Pages!

While a public status page does foster transparency and trust with users, sometimes you just need to save face. And hey, you're a tech behemoth—you can get away with it.

Server-Side Source Maps in Node.js

Node.js projects in Honeybadger can now officially take advantage of source maps, just like Client-Side JavaScript projects can.

honeybadger.js is now universal

Some devs use JavaScript in the browser; some use JavaScript on the server. What if you do both?

Introducing Public Dashboards

Are you on DEV? Did you know that it's open-source, and that it uses Honeybadger? We just launched a new feature to help communities like DEV fix more errors together!

F*ck-That Money

It's time to throw out the Silicon Valley bullshit that perpetuates the idea of "F*ck-You Money."

Breadcrumbs for JavaScript

Breadcrumbs can help you debug client-side JavaScript applications, and are available to all Honeybadger customers as of today.

What if I called FLUSHALL on your Redis instance? 😱

At Honeybadger, we use Redis a lot. It's our Swiss Army Knife; it's a cache, a single source of truth, it stores background jobs, and more. Basically, Redis is one of those services that should never fail.

I was pondering the DevOps apocalypse recently...

Debugging Source Maps

You've got bugs, but they're hiding inside your minified JavaScript. Source maps are the key to finding them. Unfortunately, they can be difficult to set up. Luckily, you're a flippin' Honeybadger. We've got your back with the documentation and tools you need swat those bugs.

Track Vue.js Errors with Honeybadger

Good news, 'badgers! We just shipped an official Vue.js integration for Honeybadger. When your Vue apps are on fire, Honeybadger alerts you of exceptions in real-time, helping to identify the root cause so that you can fix them—fast.

Wrapping Up ElixirConf 2018

In September, we attended ElixirConf in Bellevue, WA. We're still fans of Elixir. Check out some of the highlights from the conference.

The honeybadger gem 4.0 has been released!

Last week we released version 4.0.0 of the honeybadger Ruby gem. This release includes a long-awaited feature which makes it even easier to customize your error reports before they are sent to Honeybadger. We also did some much-needed refactoring, and made a few removals and deprecations for good measure. Don't worry, though—most of the API remains unchanged, so upgrading should be a relatively painless process for most users.

Adding Context to Exception Classes

We recently shipped version 3.2 of the honeybadger Ruby Gem, which includes a new feature to make it easier to add context to your error reports.

Major Client Update For Elixir

This month we released a new version of our hex package, which includes a major refactor of the internal client logic as well as some new features, improvements, and bug fixes.

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.

What's New in the Honeybadger Gem v3

The latest version of the honeybadger Ruby gem includes a lot of improvements and new features. Check it out!