Honeybadger Now Supports Logging and Event Monitoring

💡Disclaimer: This is not a sponsored post. Honeybadger has not paid me anything to write it.

I've been using Honeybadger for a while now on my Rails applications (both personal, hobby projects and for clientwork). I mainly use it for error and uptime monitoring. Both features work really great, and I really like their simple offerings and intuitive UI.

For a long time, I've been waiting for a simple hosted log management solution from them, and I recently stumbled across it while reading their docs. It's called Insights and you can read the docs here. I really like the following marketing copy, which helped clear some confusion I had about the related jargon.

The setup is dead-simple for Ruby and Rails applications. Just three simple steps:

Step 1: Install the Ruby gem:

$ bundle add honeybadger

Step 2: Set up the API key for the gem:

$ bundle exec honeybadger install [Your project API key]

Step 3: Start logging events in your Rails app:

Honeybadger.event("SUCCESS", { message: "A new customer just signed up" })

That's it.

Now you can access the Honeybadger dashboard to access and filter all your logs. They also provide a query language (called BadgerQL) that enables you to query logs.

If you're curious to learn more, here's the PR that added the event interface in the Ruby gem.

💡 Again, to reiterate, this was not a sponsored post. Although I get a ton of affiliate queries and sponsorship requests to promote products (or put ads) on this blog, I really value my readers (and I mean you all!), and the integrity and the reading experience of this blog, and only recommend or suggest products and software that I personally use and love. Honeybadger is one of them.

Also, I've learned so much from their blog (thank you for all your articles, Starr Horne, and I wish you'd resume writing again!) and hence wanted to spread some love by sharing this new feature, more so, since I haven't seen any blog posts or announcements yet, and I've been waiting for logging support for a long time.

Anyway, that's it for today. If you use Honeybadger, start logging your events now.