Honeycomb

Honeycomb Anomaly Detection API

Anomaly Detection identifies Signals - patterns in your services that deviate from their historical baseline - and can notify Recipients when a Signal turns anomalous. Each Signal is scoped to a service in a dataset and monitors one of the following: - **`error_rate`**: The fraction of erroring requests, compared to a trained normal band. - **`presence`**: Whether the service is emitting spans at all. Signals progress through the following statuses: - **`onboarding`**: The Signal has been created but does not yet have enough data to train. - **`normal`**: The Signal is trained and monitoring for anomalies. - **`anomalous`**: The Signal has detected an anomaly. - **`off`**: The Signal has been disabled and will not fire. - **`ineligible`**: The Signal cannot train because its service is not sending enough traffic to establish a reliable baseline. This API allows you to list Signals, retrieve a Signal with its assigned Recipients, page through a Signal's historical anomalies, and update a Signal's enabled state, sensitivity, and Recipient assignments. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage Signals** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/).

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Business capability
Observability Management BC-4220.20

Operations 5

GET /1/signals List All Signals #
GET /1/signals/{signalId} Get a Signal #
PUT /1/signals/{signalId} Update a Signal #
GET /1/signals/{signalId}/historical_anomalies List Historical Anomalies #
POST /1/signals/recipient_assignments Assign Recipients in Bulk #

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https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api

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https://artifacts.apis.io/honeycomb/openapi/honeycomb-anomaly-detection-api-openapi.yml

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https://artifacts.apis.io/honeycomb/json-schema/honeycomb-query-result-schema.json

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OpenAPI Specification

honeycomb-anomaly-detection-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Honeycomb Anomaly Detection API
  version: 1.0.0
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
  contact:
    email: support@honeycomb.io
  description: 'The API allows programmatic management of many resources within Honeycomb.


    Please report any discrepancies with actual API behavior in Pollinators Slack or to Honeycomb Support.'
servers:
- url: https://api.honeycomb.io
- url: https://api.eu1.honeycomb.io
tags:


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