Ben Curtis
@bencurtis.com
Christian, husband, dad, co-founder of Honeybadger.io, fan of Ruby, creator of the faker gem, EV nut (1, 2, and 4-wheel), LSU football fan, and cycling enthusiast in the PNW.
Happy Halloween! Watch out for zombie processes!
The only thing scarier than errors in your logs is not knowing about them. 👻
Honeybadger turns your cryptic logs into actionable alerts with all the context you need to exorcise those errors fast.
Sleep better knowing we're watching for the things that go bump in your logs.
#Logging #Monitoring
Honeybadger turns your cryptic logs into actionable alerts with all the context you need to exorcise those errors fast.
Sleep better knowing we're watching for the things that go bump in your logs.
#Logging #Monitoring
October 31, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Happy Halloween! Watch out for zombie processes!
This was great!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQQt...
My keynote, "We Who Remember Magic", from Rocky Mountain Ruby just posted.
My keynote, "We Who Remember Magic", from Rocky Mountain Ruby just posted.
Rocky Mountain Ruby 2025 - We Who Remember Magic by Brandon Weaver
YouTube video by Confreaks
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October 26, 2025 at 6:17 PM
This was great!
Pro tip: Include the git SHA in an HTML comment when deploying your app... it's super handy to know what is actually deployed in production, especially when you're looking at a side project that hasn't been deployed in months. :)
October 16, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Pro tip: Include the git SHA in an HTML comment when deploying your app... it's super handy to know what is actually deployed in production, especially when you're looking at a side project that hasn't been deployed in months. :)
If you haven't taken a look at the Dashboards tab in your Honeybadger project yet, now is a great time to do it. Our new project overview dashboard combined with Insights automatic instrumentation makes it super simple to see your app's health at a glance.
Traditional APM tools bury you in dashboards you'll never use. Meanwhile, the things you actually care about require complex custom instrumentation. That's why we built smart dashboards that adapt to your stack. 🧵 👇
www.honeybadger.io/changelog/pr...
#RubyOnRails #ElixirLang #Laravel #Django
www.honeybadger.io/changelog/pr...
#RubyOnRails #ElixirLang #Laravel #Django
Smart dashboards that adapt to your stack
Traditional APM tools bury you in dashboards you'll never use. Meanwhile, the things you actually care about—such as signups, payment failures, and that one background...
www.honeybadger.io
October 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If you haven't taken a look at the Dashboards tab in your Honeybadger project yet, now is a great time to do it. Our new project overview dashboard combined with Insights automatic instrumentation makes it super simple to see your app's health at a glance.
Your blog post on ClickHouse was a great read, @tjmiller.bsky.social ... thanks for the love! 😊
October 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Your blog post on ClickHouse was a great read, @tjmiller.bsky.social ... thanks for the love! 😊
I had a blast at @rmrubyconf.bsky.social and @xoruby.com last week. It was great to see old Ruby friends and make some new ones.
Also, I'm pretty sure that was the first time I've attended two conferences in the same week. :)
Also, I'm pretty sure that was the first time I've attended two conferences in the same week. :)
October 13, 2025 at 5:57 PM
I had a blast at @rmrubyconf.bsky.social and @xoruby.com last week. It was great to see old Ruby friends and make some new ones.
Also, I'm pretty sure that was the first time I've attended two conferences in the same week. :)
Also, I'm pretty sure that was the first time I've attended two conferences in the same week. :)
Insights keeps rolling! Even the Honeybadger loves snakes. ;)
Great news for Pythonistas!
We just launched automatic dashboards for #Django, #Flask, and #Celery. Get instant visibility into your #Python apps.
Try it for free with 50MB/day (1.5GB/month) plus error tracking and uptime monitoring.
Click to learn more: www.honeybadger.io/blog/python-...
We just launched automatic dashboards for #Django, #Flask, and #Celery. Get instant visibility into your #Python apps.
Try it for free with 50MB/day (1.5GB/month) plus error tracking and uptime monitoring.
Click to learn more: www.honeybadger.io/blog/python-...
Python performance monitoring in Honeybadger
Get automatic Django, Flask, and Celery dashboards in Honeybadger. Zero-instrumentation Python performance monitoring with real-time observability.
www.honeybadger.io
October 9, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Insights keeps rolling! Even the Honeybadger loves snakes. ;)
🛫 SEA ➡️ DEN … I’m looking forward to Rocky Mountain Ruby!
October 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
🛫 SEA ➡️ DEN … I’m looking forward to Rocky Mountain Ruby!
The tip in this post about git log reminded me of my most frequently-used git alias:
glods='git log --graph --pretty="%Cred%h%Creset -%C(auto)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%ad) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset" --date=short'
Try it... you'll like it! 😉
glods='git log --graph --pretty="%Cred%h%Creset -%C(auto)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%ad) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset" --date=short'
Try it... you'll like it! 😉
As developers, we live in #Git, so we'd love to see your go-to Git hacks and tips in the comments. 🧐
Speaking of Git hacks... Stitch Fix engineer Julie Kent outlined her top 10 tips for getting the most out of Git
Level up -> www.honeybadger.io/blog/git-tri...
#GitTips #GitWorkflow
Speaking of Git hacks... Stitch Fix engineer Julie Kent outlined her top 10 tips for getting the most out of Git
Level up -> www.honeybadger.io/blog/git-tri...
#GitTips #GitWorkflow
Ten Git tips and tricks you need to know
Git is an infuriatingly useful tool, but you're stuck with it. Learn how to make your workflow faster and less stressful with these 10 helpful Git tips
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September 22, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The tip in this post about git log reminded me of my most frequently-used git alias:
glods='git log --graph --pretty="%Cred%h%Creset -%C(auto)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%ad) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset" --date=short'
Try it... you'll like it! 😉
glods='git log --graph --pretty="%Cred%h%Creset -%C(auto)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%ad) %C(bold blue)<%an>%Creset" --date=short'
Try it... you'll like it! 😉
Using feature flags to grant features to customers as a one-off (when they otherwise wouldn't have that feature because of plan limitations) is so handy. We put a @flippercloud.io check in the has_feature? method of our Account model. A+ would recommend.
August 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Using feature flags to grant features to customers as a one-off (when they otherwise wouldn't have that feature because of plan limitations) is so handy. We put a @flippercloud.io check in the has_feature? method of our Account model. A+ would recommend.
Swapping out database servers without the clients event noticing makes me happy :)
August 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Swapping out database servers without the clients event noticing makes me happy :)
The presentations from #railsconf are available on YouTube, and mine is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2f...
I've been told it was a good one. ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2f...
I've been told it was a good one. ;)
RailsConf 2025 From FTP to Kamal: 20 Years of Deploying Rails by Ben Curtis
YouTube video by Ruby Central
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July 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The presentations from #railsconf are available on YouTube, and mine is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2f...
I've been told it was a good one. ;)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa2f...
I've been told it was a good one. ;)
I scared a bear while riding my bike today. That was crazy.
July 17, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I scared a bear while riding my bike today. That was crazy.
Reposted by Ben Curtis
The team that writes the code needs to deploy it and be on-call for it. Full stop. Any other setup is going to lead to resentment, unfixed or slow to fix issues.
But what about SRE? You aren't Google, so don't copy what they do. They had a specific problem to solve which you don't have.
But what about SRE? You aren't Google, so don't copy what they do. They had a specific problem to solve which you don't have.
November 24, 2024 at 8:03 PM
The team that writes the code needs to deploy it and be on-call for it. Full stop. Any other setup is going to lead to resentment, unfixed or slow to fix issues.
But what about SRE? You aren't Google, so don't copy what they do. They had a specific problem to solve which you don't have.
But what about SRE? You aren't Google, so don't copy what they do. They had a specific problem to solve which you don't have.
I had a blast at #RailsConf! Thank you so much for all the support for and kind words about my presentation on the history of deploying Rails apps. Your appreciation for my work on the faker gem was overwhelming and really touched me. ❤️
July 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I had a blast at #RailsConf! Thank you so much for all the support for and kind words about my presentation on the history of deploying Rails apps. Your appreciation for my work on the faker gem was overwhelming and really touched me. ❤️
Hot off the presses! Honeybadger now has an MCP server:
www.honeybadger.io/changelog/ho...
So cool. :)
www.honeybadger.io/changelog/ho...
So cool. :)
Connect your AI code assistant directly to Honeybadger
Debugging errors is faster when your AI assistant has full context about what's happening in your application. We just released honeybadger-mcp-server, a new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server th...
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June 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Hot off the presses! Honeybadger now has an MCP server:
www.honeybadger.io/changelog/ho...
So cool. :)
www.honeybadger.io/changelog/ho...
So cool. :)
It felt pretty good to give Elixir some love with this release!
NEW in Honeybadger: Performance monitoring for Elixir, Phoenix, and Oban 🔥🚀
HB’s automatic dashboards give you direct access to transform, query, and alert on the underlying telemetry—no black boxes, just total visibility.
www.honeybadger.io/blog/elixir-...
#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus
HB’s automatic dashboards give you direct access to transform, query, and alert on the underlying telemetry—no black boxes, just total visibility.
www.honeybadger.io/blog/elixir-...
#ElixirLang #MyElixirStatus
Elixir performance monitoring in Honeybadger
Learn how Honeybadger can help you monitor and improve the performance of your Elixir and Phoenix applications.
www.honeybadger.io
April 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It felt pretty good to give Elixir some love with this release!
Reposted by Ben Curtis
I was recently interviewed for a @rubycentral.org company spotlight. I'd like it say it's been a wild ride at Honeybadger, but it's actually been pretty calm, relatively speaking. 😁
Thanks for writing about us!
Thanks for writing about us!
Honeybadger proves what a small, scrappy Rails team can achieve: a profitable, developer-first company WITHOUT VC funding. 💫
Their story demonstrates the power of Rails, developer happiness, and community. rubycentral.org/news/company...
Their story demonstrates the power of Rails, developer happiness, and community. rubycentral.org/news/company...
Company Spotlight: How Honeybadger Built a Profitable Bootstrapped Business on Rails
If you’ve worked on a Rails app in the last decade, there’s a good chance that Honeybadger has helped you fix a bug in your code or improve your application’s performance. But behind this essential…
rubycentral.org
April 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I was recently interviewed for a @rubycentral.org company spotlight. I'd like it say it's been a wild ride at Honeybadger, but it's actually been pretty calm, relatively speaking. 😁
Thanks for writing about us!
Thanks for writing about us!
A first for me this morning… I just had a conference registration cancelled. I was looking forward to #GrafanaCon, but they apparently decided to cancel the ticket that I purchased. Incredible.
April 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A first for me this morning… I just had a conference registration cancelled. I was looking forward to #GrafanaCon, but they apparently decided to cancel the ticket that I purchased. Incredible.
Thanks for having us, Jeremy and Jess! It was fun to chat about the history of Honeybadger.
Episode 54 don't care, it's just running around eating cobras! 🦡 Ben Curtis (@bencurtis.com) and Josh Wood (@@joshuawood.honeybadger.io) join us to tell the story of starting and growing @honeybadger.io. Thanks again for the great conversation, Ben and Josh! 😊
www.indierails.com/54
www.indierails.com/54
IndieRails | Ben Curtis & Josh Wood - Kids These Days
In this episode of IndieRails, co-founders Ben Curtis and Joshua Wood share the origin story of Honeybadger, an application monitoring tool for Ruby on Rails applications (and many others). They di...
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March 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Thanks for having us, Jeremy and Jess! It was fun to chat about the history of Honeybadger.
We ❤️ HAProxy at Honeybadger 😁
Talk to your system administrator to see if HAProxy is right for you
March 11, 2025 at 7:06 PM
We ❤️ HAProxy at Honeybadger 😁
This was another update (like the EU stack) that was a long time coming, and a feature that I really wanted. With the launch of Insights Alarms we now have a platform that can help developers monitor all the things they care about in production, which makes me super happy!
New feature! Introducing Insights Alarms:
Alarms bridge the gap between data and action, transforming application events into actionable alerts that notify your team. Just write a query, set a threshold, and stay ahead of issues before they impact users. 1/🧵
www.honeybadger.io/blog/introdu...
Alarms bridge the gap between data and action, transforming application events into actionable alerts that notify your team. Just write a query, set a threshold, and stay ahead of issues before they impact users. 1/🧵
www.honeybadger.io/blog/introdu...
Introducing Alarms: Get real-time alerts from any query in Honeybadger
Learn how Honeybadger bridges the gap between data and action, transforming any monitoring query into an actionable alert that notifies your team.
www.honeybadger.io
March 11, 2025 at 6:39 PM
This was another update (like the EU stack) that was a long time coming, and a feature that I really wanted. With the launch of Insights Alarms we now have a platform that can help developers monitor all the things they care about in production, which makes me super happy!
I started wanting this many years ago, and we finally decided to make it happen last year. It was a multi-month project to get our Terraform configuration updated for a new region deployment, but I love how it turned out. Our US stack even got some improvements as a result of this work. :)
Announcing our new EU data region! 🇪🇺 🌍
If you want to use Honeybadger but must keep your data outside the U.S. (you know, for whatever reason) — this is for you.
Read the blog post, and/or stick around for the key takeaways. 🧵
www.honeybadger.io/blog/eu-data...
If you want to use Honeybadger but must keep your data outside the U.S. (you know, for whatever reason) — this is for you.
Read the blog post, and/or stick around for the key takeaways. 🧵
www.honeybadger.io/blog/eu-data...
Honeybadger’s EU data center is now generally available 🇪🇺
You can now host your Honeybadger data outside the U.S. to meet EU data residency requirements.
www.honeybadger.io
March 4, 2025 at 5:42 PM
I started wanting this many years ago, and we finally decided to make it happen last year. It was a multi-month project to get our Terraform configuration updated for a new region deployment, but I love how it turned out. Our US stack even got some improvements as a result of this work. :)