Case Study: carwow gains end-to-end observability and faster cross-system debugging with Honeycomb

Honeycomb Tracing Drives Efficiencies as carwow Scales

carwow, an online car marketplace, faced a challenge with system visibility as their infrastructure grew in complexity and expanded into new regions. Their engineering team needed a way to trace requests and interactions across their entire architecture, which had become opaque due to its microservices-lite design and use of Kafka. They turned to Honeycomb for an observability solution.

Honeycomb provided carwow with its tracing capabilities, enabling engineers to follow a request through its entire lifecycle and understand its impact across all subsystems. This solution allowed carwow's teams to collaborate effectively to quickly find and eradicate performance problems and inefficiencies introduced by their rapidly scaling, multi-team environment.

Carwow

Mike Wagg

Technical Director