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Honeycomb Send Event Example

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Honeycomb Send Event Example is an example object payload from Honeycomb, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

requestresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "url": "https://api.honeycomb.io/1/events/my-service",
    "headers": {
      "X-Honeycomb-Team": "$HONEYCOMB_API_KEY",
      "Content-Type": "application/json",
      "X-Honeycomb-Event-Time": "2026-05-25T12:00:00Z"
    },
    "body": {
      "service.name": "checkout-api",
      "http.method": "POST",
      "http.target": "/v1/orders",
      "http.status_code": 201,
      "duration_ms": 137,
      "user.id": "user_8429",
      "order.amount_cents": 4995,
      "order.currency": "USD",
      "trace.trace_id": "5b8aa5a2d2c872e8321cf37308d69df2",
      "trace.span_id": "051581bf3cb55c13"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "status": "ok"
    }
  }
}