honeycomb

Build integrations and automate workflows with the Honeycomb API. Programmatically manage datasets, queries, triggers, SLOs, environments, API keys, and more.

honeycomb publishes 22 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Events API, Queries API, SLOs API, and 19 more.

The honeycomb catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 2 Spectral governance rulesets.

honeycomb’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 10 more developer resources.

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48.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 36/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

22 APIs 16 Features

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Composite quality — 48.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 19.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20

Commercial Clarity 9.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 7.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 36/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 22

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Honeycomb Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Honeycomb Finops

FINOPS

Features 16

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Free: 20M events/mo + 100M metrics/mo

Pro from $130/mo: 1.5B events, 100 triggers, 2 SLOs, SSO

Enterprise: 300+ triggers, 100+ SLOs, Service Map, PrivateLink

Query Data API at api.honeycomb.io (Enterprise)

OpenTelemetry-native ingest

BubbleUp for high-cardinality outlier analysis

Distributed tracing with span search

Refinery for tail-based sampling

SLOs with burn rates

Triggers (alerts on query results)

Service Map (Enterprise)

Honeycomb Private Cloud (Enterprise)

Events ingest scales with plan; batch up to 1,000 events

Query Data API: 5 req/sec/team

API keys per environment

Heatmaps, scatter plots, trace waterfall views

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JSON Schema 54

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

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Documentation 4

Reference material describing how the API behaves

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

JSONSchema

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

LlmsText

LlmsText

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

JSONLD

JSONLD

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: honeycomb
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/honeycomb.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/honeycomb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
modified: '2026-05-30'
apis:
- aid: honeycomb:events-api
  name: Honeycomb Events API
  tags:
  - Events
  - Ingestion
  - Observability
  - Telemetry
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/events
  properties:
  - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/events
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/honeycomb-events-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: asyncapi/honeycomb-streaming-asyncapi.yml
    type: AsyncAPI
  description: The Honeycomb Events API is the lowest-level interface for sending event data to Honeycomb. It supports both
    single event creation and batch event submission, allowing developers to send structured telemetry data directly to Honeycomb
    datasets. While Honeycomb recommends using OpenTelemetry or Beeline SDKs for most instrumentation use cases, the Events
    API provides direct control for custom integrations and specialized data pipelines.
- aid: honeycomb:queries-api
  name: Honeycomb Queries API
  tags:
  - Analytics
  - Data Analysis
  - Observability
  - Queries
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/queries
  properties:
  - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/queries
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/honeycomb-queries-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: The Honeycomb Queries API allows developers to programmatically create and manage query specifications within
    Honeycomb. Queries are used to identify and reference queries across other parts of the API, including boards, triggers,
    and query annotations. Developers can run queries asynchronously by creating a Query Result that references a Query ID,
    then polling the query result endpoint until the data is ready. The Query Data API complements this by providing access
    to query results.
- aid: honeycomb:slos-api
  name: Honeycomb SLOs API
  tags:
  - Observability
  - Reliability
  - Service Level Objectives
  - SLOs
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/slos
  properties:
  - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/slos
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/honeycomb-slos-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: The Honeycomb SLOs API enables developers to define and monitor Service Level Objectives programmatically.
    It supports creating, listing, updating, and deleting SLO objects for an organization. Combined with the Burn Alerts API
    for notifications and the Reporting API for historical SLO performance analysis, it provides a complete interface for
    managing reliability targets and tracking error budgets over time.
- aid: honeycomb:datasets-api
  name: Honeycomb Datasets API
  tags:
  - Data Management
  - Datasets
  - Observability
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/datasets
  properties:
  - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/datasets
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/honeycomb-datasets-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: The Honeycomb Datasets API provides management capabilities for datasets, which represent collections of related
    events from the same source. It allows developers to list, create, and update datasets programmatically. The related Columns
    API enables management of fields within datasets, including listing, creating, updating, and deleting columns that define
    the structure of event data stored in Honeycomb.
- aid: honeycomb:boards-api
  name: Honeycomb Boards API
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  - Observability
  - Visualization
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/boards
  properties:
  - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/boards
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/honeycomb-boards-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: The Honeycomb Boards API allows developers to programmatically create and manage boards, which are collections
    of queries displayed together as a dashboard-like view. Boards provide a way to organize and share related queries for
    monitoring and debugging workflows. The API supports listing, creating, updating, and deleting boards, making it possible
    to automate the setup of observability dashboards across environments.
- aid: honeycomb:markers-api
  name: Honeycomb Markers API
  tags:
  - Annotations
  - Deployments
  - Markers
  - Observability
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/marker-settings
  properties:
  - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/marker-settings
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/honeycomb-markers-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: The Honeycomb Markers API enables developers to create and manage markers that indicate points in time on graphs
    where notable events occurred, such as deploys, configuration changes, or outages. Marker Settings allow grouping similar
    markers together with consistent visual styling. The API supports listing, creating, updating, and deleting both markers
    and marker settings, making it straightforward to integrate deployment pipelines and incident workflows with Honeycomb
    visualizations.
- aid: honeycomb:triggers-api
  name: Honeycomb Triggers API
  tags:
  - Alerts
  - Monitoring
  - Notifications
  - Observability
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/triggers
  properties:
  - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/triggers
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/honeycomb-triggers-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  - url: asyncapi/honeycomb-streaming-asyncapi.yml
    type: AsyncAPI
  description: The Honeycomb Triggers API allows developers to programmatically configure alerting rules that fire when query
    results meet specified conditions. Triggers work in conjunction with the Recipients API, which manages notification destinations
    including PagerDuty, Email, Webhook, Microsoft Teams, and Slack. The API supports listing, creating, updating, and deleting
    triggers, enabling automated setup of alerting workflows for production observability.
- aid: honeycomb:environments-api
  name: Honeycomb Environments API
  tags:
  - Administration
  - Environments
  - Observability
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/environments
  properties:
  - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api/environments
    type: Documentation
  - url: openapi/honeycomb-environments-api-openapi.yml
    type: OpenAPI
  description: The Honeycomb Environments API provides administrative capabilities for managing environments within a Honeycomb
    team. Environments allow organizations to separate telemetry data across different stages such as development, staging,
    and production. The API supports listing, creating, updating, and deleting environments, along with the Auth API for validating
    API keys and determining their associated team and environment permissions.
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-auth-api
  name: honeycomb Auth API
  description: Validate authentication for a key, determine what authorizations have been granted to a key, and determine
    the Team and Environment it belongs to.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Auth
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-auth-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-burn-alerts-api
  name: honeycomb Burn Alerts API
  description: Manage burn alerts that notify you when issues impact your SLO budget.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Burn Alerts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-burn-alerts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-calculated-fields-api
  name: honeycomb Calculated Fields API
  description: Manage calculated fields (derived columns) that compute values from expressions applied to event fields.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Calculated Fields
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-calculated-fields-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-columns-api
  name: honeycomb Columns API
  description: Manage columns (fields) in the events you send to Honeycomb datasets.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Columns
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-columns-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-dataset-definitions-api
  name: honeycomb Dataset Definitions API
  description: Manage dataset definitions that configure how columns are interpreted and displayed.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Dataset Definitions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-dataset-definitions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-key-management-api
  name: honeycomb Key Management API
  description: Manage API keys for a team, including listing, creating, updating, and deleting keys.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Key Management
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-key-management-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-kinesis-events-api
  name: honeycomb Kinesis Events API
  description: Process streaming events from Amazon Kinesis into Honeycomb.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Kinesis Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-kinesis-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-marker-settings-api
  name: honeycomb Marker Settings API
  description: Manage marker settings that group similar markers together with consistent visual styling.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Marker Settings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-marker-settings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-query-annotations-api
  name: honeycomb Query Annotations API
  description: Associate names and descriptions to queries for collaboration features.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Query Annotations
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-query-annotations-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-query-data-api
  name: honeycomb Query Data API
  description: Access completed query result data.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Query Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-query-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-query-results-api
  name: honeycomb Query Results API
  description: Create and poll for asynchronous query results.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Query Results
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-query-results-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-recipients-api
  name: honeycomb Recipients API
  description: Manage notification destinations for triggers and burn alerts including PagerDuty, Email, Webhook, Microsoft
    Teams, and Slack.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Recipients
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-recipients-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-reporting-api
  name: honeycomb Reporting API
  description: Access historical SLO performance reporting data.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Reporting
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-reporting-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
- aid: honeycomb:honeycomb-service-maps-api
  name: honeycomb Service Maps API
  description: Visualize relationships between services using dependency requests.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
  baseURL: https://api.honeycomb.io
  tags:
  - Service Maps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/honeycomb-service-maps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/honeycomb-agentic-access.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/honeycomb-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/honeycomb-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/honeycomb-authentication.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/honeycombio
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/honeycomb-context.jsonld
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/honeycomb-event-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/honeycomb-query-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/honeycomb-slo-schema.json
- type: JSONSchema
  url: json-schema/honeycomb-trigger-schema.json
- type: Features
  data:
  - 'Free: 20M events/mo + 100M metrics/mo'
  - 'Pro from $130/mo: 1.5B events, 100 triggers, 2 SLOs, SSO'
  - 'Enterprise: 300+ triggers, 100+ SLOs, Service Map, PrivateLink'
  - Query Data API at api.honeycomb.io (Enterprise)
  - OpenTelemetry-native ingest
  - BubbleUp for high-cardinality outlier analysis
  - Distributed tracing with span search
  - Refinery for tail-based sampling
  - SLOs with burn rates
  - Triggers (alerts on query results)
  - Service Map (Enterprise)
  - Honeycomb Private Cloud (Enterprise)
  - Events ingest scales with plan; batch up to 1,000 events
  - 'Query Data API: 5 req/sec/team'
  - API keys per environment
  - Heatmaps, scatter plots, trace waterfall views
  sources:
  - https://www.honeycomb.io/pricing
  updated: '2026-05-04'
- type: Integrations
  url: https://docs.honeycomb.io/integrations
- type: LlmsText
  url: https://docs.honeycomb.io/llms.txt
- url: https://www.honeycomb.io/feed/
  type: Blog
description: Build integrations and automate workflows with the Honeycomb API. Programmatically manage datasets, queries,
  triggers, SLOs, environments, API keys, and more.
integrations:
- name: Honeycomb MCP

honeycomb

APIs 22

Open Collections 8

Pricing Plans 1

Rate Limits 1

FinOps 1

Features 16

Event Specifications 1

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 2

JSON Schema 54

JSON Structure 1

Security Posture 3

Agentic Access 1

Documentation 4

Agent Surfaces 2

Design & Contract 1

Build 1

Access & Security 3

Company 1

Source (apis.yml)