Honeycomb Launches Customizable Query Windows, Long Term Event Retention, and Public Beta of Data Compliance Product

New features put performance and cost in the hands of customers and provide a solution enabling regulatory compliance without giving up the benefits of SaaS.

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Mar 01, 2018, 08:00 ET

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Honeycomb, the leading observability provider for software engineers, announces general availability of new features designed to put performance, cost, and retention directly in the hands of customers.

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Until now, the "industry standard" experience for users of SaaS metrics, monitoring, logging, and observability products has been implicit tradeoffs between data retention, query performance, and cost. The experience is generally unpredictable and idiosyncratic to each product--offering limited control for customers to choose the tradeoffs best for them.

Honeycomb is turning this dynamic on its head. Users can now:

Decide where to draw the line between faster and slower querying with Fast Query Windows
Decide how long data should be retained with Secondary Storage
Pay less for longer retention and slower querying

This gives Honeycomb customers complete control over performance, retention, and cost.

"Users have always loved the fast, interactive experience we provide for live-debugging production systems, but they also wanted the security of being able to grow data archives. You can't typically have fast, big, and cheap. But with this release, customers can age data to Secondary Storage and query it forever if they like." -- Charity Majors, CEO and Co-Founder, Honeycomb.

In addition, Honeycomb is releasing a novel solution in beta to leveraging SaaS for data subject to various compliance regimes. With Honeycomb's Secure Tenancy product, customers can:

Encrypt all event data before sending to Honeycomb, while maintaining total control over keys, OR
Keep event data completely on premise, while still using Honeycomb's SaaS observability platform for querying and analysis

Honeycomb is founded on the experience of building and operating a platform hosting millions of apps serving tens of millions of users. The product enables engineers to easily create and analyze data about the behavior of their own software, so they can instantly go from visualizing aggregate trends to pinpointing the exact shopping cart stalling on a transaction, or query starving a system, or user experiencing or causing a problem. Anyone can try out Honeycomb free for 30 days!

Customers like Tapjoy, CarGurus, and Optimizely rely on Honeycomb to solve the hard problems that arise from operating their platforms.

About Honeycomb
Honeycomb provides observability for a distributed world—designed for high-cardinality data and collaborative problem solving, enabling engineers to deeply understand and debug production software together. Founded on the experience of debugging problems at the scale of millions of apps serving tens of millions of users, we empower every engineer to instrument and query the behavior of their system.

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