Articles by Benjamin Curtis

Adding config to AWS ECS tasks

If you want to run a Docker container in AWS ECS, but the image requires a configuration file to work properly, are you stuck creating a custom image just to add that file? Nope! Learn how to add that file at deployment time.

Introducing Honeybadger Insights

Gain insights into your errors, application logs, and other event streams with a powerful query language and flexible visualizations. It's the logging tool you always wanted and the observability tool you didn't know you needed.

About Log4j...

Honeybadger is not impacted by the Log4j vulnerabilities.

Announcing Hook Relay

If you're a developer working with web hooks, you should definitely check out our new product, Hook Relay.

Conditionally deploying parts of your CloudFormation stack with the Serverless Framework

What do you do when you want to customize which resources are deployed via CloudFormation?

Honeybadger is hiring a software developer

Do you love to learn about programming languages, and thrive in a dynamic remote environment? If so, you could be the next Honeybadger.

Managing PostgreSQL partitioned tables with Ruby

Introducing the pgpartitionmanager gem: It helps you easily maintain PostgreSQL partitioned tables that need to be created and dropped over time as you add and expire time-based data in your application.

Configure Your App with SSM Parameter Store

Configuring your Rails app via environment variables works well, but sometimes you want to be able to update your configuration on the fly. Here's a way to update your app's environment using SSM Parameter Store.

Why would you want to do this? Well...

Using Ruby on AWS Lamba

If you love Ruby and Lambda like we do, then re:Invent 2018 was like Christmas arriving early. Here's how you can get up to speed quickly with running Ruby code on Lambda.

Cleanly Scaling Sidekiq

When your autoscaling group terminates instances running Sidekiq, you should finish the Sidekiq jobs before the instance gets terminated. This is how we do that at Honeybadger.

Introducing our Sidekiq cluster script

Here's an easy way to run multiple Sidekiq processes via systemd.

Our Postgres Infrastructure

We love Postgres at Honeybadger, but it does require some care and feeding. Here's what we've done to scale Postgres along with the growing needs of our business.

How to manage application secrets in EC2

Are you deploying your apps to EC2 and wondering how to store your application secrets? Learn how to use KMS and IAM roles to store your secrets on S3 securely.

Announcing AptWatcher

AptWatcher is a tiny Sinatra app that notifies your Slack channel about pending apt package updates.

Version 2 of our Read API

We have a new version of our Read API that provides additional data and advanced search.

Announcing Intercom integration

We just launched an integration with Intercom to track which users encountered errors.

New and improved search

Over the past few months we've been working on delivering an improved search experience for Honeybadger customers, and today we're happy to announce that it's finally ready.  Our goal was to provide more advanced search options for the data you've...

How we implemented in-browser alerts with Pusher, Rails and Pnotify

Today we're announcing the launch of a fun feature: In-browser notifications. Once enabled on the Notifications tab of the Project Settings page, you'll get a popup notification in the corner of the browser window when one of the events occurs that...

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...