Articles by Starr Horne

We're partnering with PagerDuty!

Today is a big day for us. It’s the first day of our OFFICIAL partnership with the fine folks over at PagerDuty.

What does that mean for you?

It means you'll have even more control over how and when you receive your Honeybadger alerts.

You simply...

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...

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...

Is _why coming out of exile?

Mysterious PCL files, A Fake Printer Spool. Chunky Bacon.

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...

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...

Honeybadger is #winning

The results are in: Honeybadger was able to grab a 50% market share of winning apps at Rails Rumble! Amid strong competition (in an apparently crowded market), the 'badger has landed as the clear favorite:

So, you might ask, who all used Honeybadger...

Lessons from Rails Rumble

We were very excited when we found out we would get to sponsor this year's Rails Rumble competition, and are proud of all the great contestants and new apps that they've built using our favorite web framework!

There were a lot of entries, yet somehow...