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Honeycomb Integration

Connect Honeycomb to enable agents to query traces and events during investigations.

Capabilities​

CapabilityDescription
Query EventsSearch event data
Analyze TracesView distributed traces
Run QueriesExecute Honeycomb queries

Setup​

1
Create a Configuration API Key
  1. Log in to Honeycomb
  2. Click the Environments label (top-left) → Manage Environments
  3. Select your environment name
  4. Go to the API Keys tab → Configuration tab
  5. Click Create API Key
  6. Enter a name for the key. Then enable the required permissions. See Configuration Keys permissions for details
  7. Click Save. Then copy the API key
note

You must use a Configuration API Key, not an Ingest Key or Team Management Key. Ingest Keys can only send telemetry data and cannot run queries or access columns. You must be a Team Owner to create an API Key. For more details, see the Honeycomb API Keys documentation.

2
Add Integration in Autoheal
  1. Go to Integrations → Honeycomb
  2. Enter the Environment Configuration Key
  3. Optionally specify a default dataset name and API endpoint
3
Test and Save

Click Test Connection. Then click Save.

Example Queries​

Show me slow traces for the checkout service
What's the p99 latency for /api/orders over the last hour?
Find errors in the payment flow from the last 30 minutes