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What is Honeycomb?

Honeycomb is an observability platform designed to handle the volume and complexity of modern software systems. It provides a unified solution for collecting and analyzing logs, metrics, and traces, offering a comprehensive view of system behavior.

Honeycomb's data store rewards curiosity with unlimited dimensionality when storing, querying and correlating all your telemetry data in one place. Results from Honeycomb's query engine are unbelievably fast regardless of the size of data stored.

Features

  • Distributed Tracing: Understand the complete path of a request as it travels through your system.
  • BubbleUp Anomaly Detection: Automatically surfaces significant changes in your data.
  • SLOs (Service Level Objectives): Define and track key performance indicators.
  • Service Map: Visualize the relationships between your services.
  • OpenTelemetry Support: Seamlessly integrate with the OpenTelemetry standard.
  • Team Query History: Easily view and manage the team's search activity.
  • Query Result Permalinks: Share specific findings through permalinks for enhanced collaboration.
  • Honeycomb Metrics: Collect and analyze relevant performance measurements.
  • Query Assistant: Provides support and assistance in using the query function effectively.

Use Cases

  • Incident Reduction
  • Predictable Costs
  • DevOps & Releases
  • Frontend Development
  • Meet Customer SLAs

FAQs

  • What is an event?
    In Honeycomb, an event is a single trace span, structured log, or metric label combination that you send as OTLP or JSON to our API. Each event can be up to 100KB, with up to 2000 attributes.
  • How do I see how many events I’m currently sending to Honeycomb?
    From the Honeycomb web UI, find the Usage page under Team Settings. This page shows your team’s event volume for the last 60 days.
  • What happens when I am over my monthly event limit?
    We send you a notification to let you know you have exceeded your monthly event limit. If you have a second consecutive overage month, we send a notification that we’ll begin throttling your events.
  • Is it possible to set my data retention period beyond 60 days for a dataset?
    If you have an Enterprise plan, extended data retention is available on a per-month or per-yearly basis as an add-on.
  • What is Honeycomb’s approach to security and compliance certifications?
    Honeycomb is SOC 2 Type 2 certified and compliant.

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