Honeycomb: Basics to Business Value
Send Honeycomb JSON or sophisticated OpenTelemetry. Traces, logs, metrics. Then add a few business-specific fields (or calculate them), and answer important questions on the fly.
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Observability Without Tradeoffs: Introducing Powerful New Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Features
Every day, enterprise companies generate terabytes of observability data while engineering teams are under pressure to cut costs. One of the easiest ways to reduce observability bills is through sampling: intentionally sending only a representative portion of telemetry data, rather than the full volume, to your observability tool. But turning down the dial is risky.
Highlight reel: Futureproof Your AI Investment With Observability
Artificial intelligence is changing the way modern systems are built—and how teams are expected to and operate them. But as AI-driven complexity grows, so too does the need for deep, reliable, and fast visibility into what’s really happening inside our. In this timely and thought-provoking session, Christine Yen, CEO and Co-founder of Honeycomb, explores how practices must evolve to keep pace with.
Honeycomb Observability Day London: A Jam-Packed Day of Great Talks
On May 15th, 2025, Honeycomb hosted Observability Day (or O11yDay) in the London financial district. The skies were clear and the weather was wonderful and we had a huge turnout, from our networking breakfast to the happy hour at the end of the day.
Custom Webhooks: a Quick Example
When an alert triggers in Honeycomb, how do you want to hear about it? Send detailed information however you want it with custom webhooks.
Tales From the Trench: Building With LLMs and Honeycomb
AI discourse these days is all over the place. Depending on who you talk to, AI’s are absolute flash-in-the-pan junk, or they’re the best thing since sliced bread. I want to cut through the noise, though, and see for myself what someone can do out here on the bleeding edge. Thus, I’m setting myself a challenge: write a usable—and useful—application with Claude Code, from soup to nuts. Here are the rules: With our ground rules established, let’s figure out our app!
Interactive Service Map
Honeycomb Service Map is dynamically generated from traces. It shows all the connections between services, and you can narrow it down by any query-- for instance, see the services one particular user hit. And then, get to a trace with the full details. Service Map is a feature of Honeycomb Enterprise.
It's The End Of Observability As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)
In a really broad sense, the history of observability tools over the past couple of decades have been about a pretty simple concept: how do we make terabytes of heterogeneous telemetry data comprehensible to human beings? New Relic did this for the Rails revolution, Datadog did it for the rise of AWS, and Honeycomb led the way for OpenTelemetry.
MCP = Observability + Code, a Real-life Example
Our bot is hitting an error. We can see it in the distributed trace. Here, see what happened when we noticed it: Austin fired up Claude Code (hooked up to Honeycomb with its MCP tool) and got it to find the error, fix it, deploy, and check that the fix worked. It got a little overconfident at first, but the ending is happy. IRL this took 22 minutes; the video speeds up the AI agent interactions and cuts out waiting. This video includes Austin Parker, Jessica Kerr, and Ken Rimple.
Beyond Shift Left: Engineering Leaders Increase Speed and Resilience With Observability
We recently had the privilege of hosting several industry experts and technology executives across platform strategy, SRE, and engineering enablement for breakfast at our Observability Day in London. We noted that they’re all facing the same fundamental tension: deliver faster, scale smarter, stay resilient, and somehow get ahead of what’s coming next. But how do you move fast without breaking things? And how do you prove the value of the things you don’t break?
Integrations: AWS & Logs
Check out just a few ways to bring data in to Honeycomb. This video highlights one-click AWS integrations, plus familiar log formats. Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline Manager is an optional component of Honeycomb Telemetry Pipeline, a product available with Honeycomb Enterprise.