Honeycomb

Platform

Observability for distributed tracing and high-cardinality event queries

Price: Free tier, then paid
Access: Ingest key

About

Observability built around wide events and distributed traces, queried at high cardinality, with OpenTelemetry as the main way to send data. Hosted in the US or EU, or in your own AWS account with Private Cloud; the free plan covers 20M events a month.

What you can do with it

Trace requests across microservices with OpenTelemetry
Query structured logs and events by any field to find outliers
Define SLOs and triggers that alert on error rates and latency

Get started

Create a Honeycomb team and environment
Create an ingest key in the environment settings

Example

# EU accounts use https://api.eu1.honeycomb.io
curl -X POST https://api.honeycomb.io/1/batch/my-dataset \
  -H "X-Honeycomb-Team: $HONEYCOMB_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '[{"data":{"method":"GET","endpoint":"/foo","shard":"users","duration_ms":32}}]'

Details

Hosting: Hosted service, Self-hosted
Available in: Worldwide
Official SDKs: JavaScript/TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift
MCP server: Remote