Managing Data Volume

What is Refinery?
Refinery is a tail-based sampling proxy and operates at the level of an entire trace. Refinery examines whole traces and intelligently applies sampling deci...
Tue, 3 Oct, 2023 at 12:05 PM
Refinery Unexpectedly Dropping Data
Refinery emits metrics about spans received and dropped. Information on the metrics is available here: https://docs.honeycomb.io/manage-data-volume/sample/h...
Fri, 6 Sep, 2024 at 9:55 AM
I got a message saying my events are being "throttled." What gives?
Honeycomb engages event throttling as a last resort, when an account has exceeded its events per month (EPM) limit for two months in a row.  Before to r...
Fri, 6 Jan, 2023 at 8:58 AM
Refinery’s EMAThroughputSampler consistently runs at a rate above goal throughout
Problem Description: Refinery’s EMAThroughputSampler is not adhering to the specified GoalThroughputPerSec limit. The problem persists even after reduci...
Wed, 5 Jun, 2024 at 6:47 AM
Too Many Metrics after Enabling OpenTelemetry on Kubernete's
If you have recently configured the OpenTelemetery collector for your Kubernetes cluster, perhaps using our documentation here and are getting a lot more ev...
Wed, 5 Jun, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Error 405 when connecting to Honeycomb or Refinery
HTTP has a status code "405" for when a method isn't allowed by a server. In situations with proxies such as Kubernetes services, load bal...
Mon, 28 Oct, 2024 at 1:33 PM