honeycomb

aid: honeycomb
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/honeycomb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
modified: '2026-05-30'
apis:
  - aid: honeycomb:api
    name: Honeycomb API
    tags:
      - Debugging
      - Monitoring
      - Observability
      - Telemetry
      - Tracing
    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
    properties:
      - url: https://api-docs.honeycomb.io/api
        type: Documentation
      - url: openapi/honeycomb-api-openapi.yml
        type: OpenAPI
    description: >-
      The Honeycomb API is a REST API that provides programmatic access to the Honeycomb observability platform. It
      enables developers to send events, manage datasets and columns, create and run queries, configure SLOs and burn
      alerts, set up triggers and recipients, manage boards and markers, and administer environments and API keys.
  - 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.
common:
  - 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: LLMsTxt
    url: https://docs.honeycomb.io/llms.txt
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