Honeycomb, the leading observability platform that enables engineering teams to solve problems they couldn’t before, is debuting the general availability of Honeycomb for Frontend Observability—a solution that gives engineers the unified, granular data they need to quickly pinpoint issues across their stack. This announcement extends Honeycomb’s debugging capabilities to the frontend, driving a deeper understanding of web application performance and user experiences.
As the demands for top-notch user experiences continues to grow, monitoring the frontend of these sites is becoming just as complex as the backend, according to Honeycomb.
Honeycomb for Frontend Observability is designed to transcend traditional frontend monitoring tools—such as Real User Monitoring (RUM)—with powerful, contextually enriched visualizations of frontend interactions. Underpinned by OpenTelemetry-based instrumentation and support for hundreds of custom attributes at no cost, Honeycomb for Frontend Observability works to surface new insights into both customer and performance issues.
“The frontend is critical—it’s where customers spend their time and where revenue is generated. Unfortunately, many frontend observability tools are outdated, offering only aggregated metrics and limited insights,” said Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb. “With Honeycomb’s Frontend Observability solution, we're bridging the gap between backend and frontend observability, giving engineering teams a holistic view of their entire application—from server to browser—enabling them to deliver exceptional user experiences."
Honeycomb for Frontend Observability empowers engineers to pinpoint and resolve frontend issues, paired with seamless open source web instrumentation that dramatically eases the process of data collection, custom attribute integration, and end-to-end tracing. Integrating with Honeycomb’s existing observability platform, users benefit from a unified interface for debugging across the entire software stack, according to Honeycomb.
According to Honeycomb, the user interaction tracking and context capture within Honeycomb for Frontend Observability enables engineering teams to query high-cardinality data, driving faster problem solving and better cross-team collaboration.. Additionally, capturing attribution data for Core Web Vitals equips developers with precise visibility into the causes of poor site performance, as well as recommended steps for improvement.
According to Michael J Garski, director of software engineering at Fender Instruments and user of Honeycomb for Frontend observability, “Ecommerce is critical to Fender. Honeycomb for Frontend Observability removes the guesswork from diagnosing our site's performance issues by tracking precise page speeds, filtering sessions, and identifying the cause of speed spikes, enabling targeted site optimization for maximizing conversions and delivering better customer experiences.”
To learn more about Honeycomb for Frontend Observability, please visit https://www.honeycomb.io/.