The Honeybadger developer blog

Announcing Uptime and Performance Metrics for Rails

Uptime and performance monitoring for ruby and rails applications

Honeybadger now includes server monitoring!

The more you understand the context of your errors, the faster you can fix them. That’s why we’ve added server monitoring to all accounts...

Alerts and integrations just leveled up

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Since the beginning, you've been asking for:

More integrations with tools like Jira, Sprintly and PagerDuty A richer and more granular system of alerts

Well, my friends, today you have them.

We've just shipped a completely...

Zero downtime migrations: 500 million rows

Data makes things hard

In this article I'm going to go over some of the tricks we use to handle large data migrations at Honeybadger. Check out the video for a quick overview.

When you have a lot of data, your life gets harder. When you only have...

The case against using RubyGems.org in production

A screed + a screencast showing you how to host your own gems

Let’s get this out of the way: gems are awesome, and RubyGems.org is a great service.

...But lately I’ve been feeling queasy every time I add a new gem to an app. The more I think about...

Batch Resolve and Error Trendlines

Batch Resolve

Don't think we settled for a dumb old "resolve all" button. Our batch resolve is tied to our powerful error search system.

That means you can resolve all errors assigned to you that are in staging and contain the word "banana."

PHP Exception Monitoring with Honeybadger

Don't forget where you come from

It's 2013, baby, you're a badass rails developer. Sure you've made a few mistakes. Most of them in PHP. But those days are long gone left behind in a trail of dust with your matchbox twenty LPs and your matrix trenchcoat...

Comments are a beautiful thing

Github flavored markdown lets you add structure, images, links and code to your comments. By the way, did you know that you can comment on an error just by replying to it's email notice? Pretty cool, huh?

Here's the code we used to create the example...

Honeybadger gem v1.6.1 has SHIPPED

There's never been a better time to upgrade

Why we've added lots of new features, a few bugfixes and an actual old fashioned changelog.

Removed ActiveSupport Dependency

Notice anythig missing?

Honeybadger no longer requires ActiveSupport. Thanks...

The Inadequate Guide to Rails Security

If you're like me, you got into this business because you love building awesome apps.

Let's take a second to reflect on the good times.

...back to the real world.

It sucks that you even have to worry about security. It's just sick that there are...

Handle Inbound Email in any Rack Application

So your client just called...

He wants his app to handle incoming email. Just like Basecamp.

No problem, you think, lots of services will send you email by POST to your app. Should be easy. Right?

Nope.

Each service uses a proprietary format. Some...