# Honeycomb

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/honeycomb-io/  
**Website:** https://www.honeycomb.io/  
**APIs profiled:** 21

## Kin Score — 53.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 67.7 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 63.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 57.9 |
| Access Clarity | 57.9 |

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| Rate Limit Signal | verified |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (21)

- **Honeycomb Auth API** — API Keys have various scopes permissions and belong to a specific Team or Environment. Any valid Honeycomb ingest or configuration API Key will work with this endpoint. Learn mo...
- **Honeycomb Boards API** — Boards are a place to pin and save useful queries/graphs, SLO panels, text panels, and views you want to retain for later reuse and reference. Boards can contain multiple panel ...
- **Honeycomb Burn Alerts API** — This feature is available as part of the [Honeycomb Pro and Enterprise plans](https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing/). Burn Alerts notify you when issues impact your SLO budget. Lear...
- **Honeycomb Calculated Fields API** — Calculated Fields (also called Derived Columns) allow you to run queries based on the value of an expression that is calculated from the fields in an event. This API allows you ...
- **Honeycomb Columns API** — Columns are fields in the events you send to Honeycomb. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete columns in a dataset. ## Authorization The API key must have the ...
- **Honeycomb Dataset Definitions API** — Dataset definitions describe the fields with special meaning in the Dataset. Refer to the [Dataset Definitions](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/datasets/definitions/) docume...
- **Honeycomb Datasets API** — A Dataset represents a collection of related events that come from the same source, or are related to the same source. This API allows you to list, create, and update datasets. ...
- **Honeycomb Environments API** — This API allows you to list, create, and update, and delete Environments. ## Authorization This API requires a Management Key passed via the HTTP Authorization header. Join the ...
- **Honeycomb Events API** — The Events API endpoints are the lowest-level way to send Events to Honeycomb. **This should be your last resort!** If unsure where to start when instrumenting an application, r...
- **Honeycomb Key Management API** — This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete API Keys for a Team. Learn more about [API keys here](https://docs.honeycomb.io/configure/environments/manage-api-keys/)....
- **Honeycomb Kinesis Events API** — The Kinesis Events API endpoints allow Honeycomb to process streaming events from Amazon Kinesis. Refer to the [Honeycomb AWS integrations](https://docs.honeycomb.io/integration...
- **Honeycomb Marker Settings API** — Marker Settings apply to groups of similar Markers. For example, "deploys" markers appear with the same color on a graph. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete...
- **Honeycomb Markers API** — Markers indicate points in time on graphs where interesting things happen, such as deploys or outages. This API allows you to list, create, update, and delete Markers. ## Author...
- **Honeycomb Queries API** — Queries in Honeycomb are specifications for queries, and are used to identify queries in other parts of the API - in particular: boards, triggers, and query annotations. This AP...
- **Honeycomb Query Annotations API** — Query Annotations in Honeycomb allow you to associate names and descriptions to queries to add additional information in collaboration features. This API allows you to list, cre...
- **Honeycomb Query Data API** — This feature is available as part of the [Honeycomb Enterprise plan](https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing/). Query Results are the aggregated data from a Query, similar to what is d...
- **Honeycomb Recipients API** — Honeycomb Recipients allow you to define and manage the Recipients that will get notified by a Trigger or Burn Alert. The types of Recipients supported are: PagerDuty, Email, We...
- **Honeycomb Reporting API** — The Reporting API provides access to historical performance data. ## Authorization The API key must have the **Manage SLOs** permission. Learn more about [API keys here](https:/...
- **Honeycomb Service Maps API** — The Service Maps API endpoints allow you to visualize the relationships between your services in Honeycomb. This API allows you to create and retrieve service Dependency Request...
- **Honeycomb SLOs API** — This feature is available as part of the [Honeycomb Pro and Enterprise plans](https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing). Honeycomb SLOs allow you to define and monitor Service Level Obj...
- **Honeycomb Triggers API** — Triggers let you receive notifications when your data in Honeycomb crosses the thresholds that you configure. The graph on which to alert is as flexible as a Honeycomb query, wh...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Honeycomb Io Agentic Access** — 85 operations · 50 acting

## Security (2)

- **Honeycomb Io Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Honeycomb Io Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR

## Plans (1)

- **Honeycomb Io Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Observability, Tracing, Distributed Tracing, Telemetry, OpenTelemetry, Event, Logs, Metrics, SLO, AIOps, AI Observability

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/honeycomb-io/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.
