New Agents can now create and update SLO Burn Alerts through the Honeycomb MCP. They can also reset SLO budgets. These tools allow agents to create full observability-driven monitoring and alerting loops with Honeycomb SLOs. To access the new tools, connect to Honeycomb MCP with Read and Write permission. Learn more about Honeycomb MCP and Honeycomb SLOs.
Improvement By default, a grouped trigger sends no resolution notification until every group clears, and uses the same set of recipients regardless of which group fired. Group resolution alerts is a new third option under Frequency of Alerts. Select it on a grouped trigger to get: Per-group resolution. Each group resolves independently when it drops below threshold, and the notification names the…
Improvement We've refreshed the visual design across the Honeycomb UI. The result is a more consistent, readable interface that gets out of your way while you investigate. What you'll notice: Rounder, softer UI. Inputs, buttons, cards, menus, and modals are easier to tell apart from the page and from each other, so you can scan a screen and find the control you need faster. Canvas is easier to rea…
New Canvas Connectors are in public beta. Canvas Agents already connect to GitHub and Linear. They now also connect to Amplitude, Atlassian, Braintrust, Checkly, incident.io, Notion, Pylon, and Sentry. Connectors give the Canvas Agent context from outside Honeycomb. For example, the Canvas Agent can combine the failing Checkly check, the Sentry stack trace, the Github code change, and the Jira iss…
New Get board suggestions tailored to your stack. Home now surfaces board templates matched to the data you have — no more digging through generic templates to find one that fits. When Honeycomb detects data from a recognized service or stack, you'll see a "For your stack" suggestion on the Home page with a ready-to-use board template, like performance tracking boards built for your services. Clic…
New New to Honeycomb? You no longer need to instrument your own app to see what Honeycomb can do. The Send Data page now includes an Explore with Sample Data option. Pick a scenario that matches what you're building, and we'll send a realistic trace straight into your environment — no code, no config, no waiting on your own instrumentation. Choose from three scenarios: E-commerce: a web checkout f…
Improvement Your Canvas Agents can now observe and warn you about patterns and pin-point repeat issues faster in your auto-investigated Triggers, Burn Alerts, and Anomalies. Honeycomb now dispatches Automatic Investigations to Canvas agents with awareness of recent firings of those alerts. Canvas agents maintain information about your alerts over time, letting them build on previous hypotheses and…
Improvement You can now search for any span name in a conversation - tool calls, LLM operations, agent invocations, and more. Matching spans are highlighted in the timeline so you can jump straight to the steps you care about instead of scanning a long-running conversation end to end.
New Getting your data into Honeycomb just got a lot faster. Connect your codebase directly through the Honeycomb MCP server, and get guided step-by-step from zero to insight — right from wherever you're already working with AI. With MCP-based onboarding, you can: Send data in minutes: Install the Honeycomb plugin, connect via MCP, and auto-instrument your app with a guided prompt that walks you th…
New Anomaly Detection is now in open beta, and it's on for your team today. Anomaly Detection establishes a statistical baseline of normal behavior for each of your services, then notifies you when something deviates from it. No thresholds to define, no queries to write, nothing to configure. Honeycomb identifies which of your services have enough steady traffic to model reliably, onboards them au…
New The Activity Log environment now includes the telemetry_stats dataset. This dataset records the number of events sent to Honeycomb per environment, dataset, API key, and event category, as well as the outcome (whether we accepted or rejected the event, or encountered an error), and any error message. There's also a new Telemetry Stats board template, with a variety of useful queries for monito…
New You can now create or update Triggers, SLOs, and Boards using Canvas. Edits always require human approval and are not available to the agent during automatic investigations.
New Connectors allow you to bring your tools into the canvas. Available connectors in beta: Linear Github
New When authorizing an MCP client to the Honeycomb MCP Server, you may now select multiple teams at once. Each team can have unique read/write permissions. If multiple teams are selected, your agent will need to pass a team parameter when making tool calls to disambiguate.
Improvement Filter by any custom attribute - email, user ID, agent name, and more to land on the Conversations that matter. It's the fastest path from "here are all of my Conversations" to "here's the one Agent Conversation I need to debug."
New Activity Log has graduated from beta and is now generally available for Honeycomb Enterprise customers. Activity Log gives you a detailed record of user activity and resource changes in Honeycomb — who changed what, and when. Since launching in open beta, teams have been using it for: Change investigation: Trace account changes, or configure alerts on critical updates via - Triggers on Activit…
Improvement When configuring who receives usage notifications, you can now send them to any email address — not just Honeycomb team members. This opens up broader integration possibilities, such as: Routing usage notifications to a Slack channel via a channel email address Sending notifications to a shared team alias or distribution list Forwarding usage alerts into other platforms that accept inb…
New Agent Timeline gives you visibility into your multi-agent, multi-trace AI workflows - LLM calls, tool invocations, token, messages, and failures, all in one place. Here's what's included: Conversations View: browse agent conversations across the last 60 days with agents, tool calls, tokens, P95 latency, and failure counts at a glance Agent Timeline: open any conversation to see duration, model…
New This release brings a redesigned investigation surface built for how teams work today: with multiple humans and multiple agents collaborating on the same investigation in real time, agents that act autonomously when alerts fire, executable knowledge that teaches them how your systems work, and connections to the tools where your code lives. Auto-investigations When a trigger fires, an SLO burn…
New BubbleUp Insights analyzes your BubbleUp results for you to quickly surface notable differences and potential root causes in your data. Insights will load automatically when running a BubbleUp in Query Results for all teams opted in to the Honeycomb Intelligence Terms. You can still analyze and interact with BubbleUp yourself using the charts below the Notable Differences section.
New Honeycomb is now easier on the eyes during late-night incidents. Honeycomb now supports dark mode across the entire product. It follows your system preference automatically or you can toggle it manually in the left nav.
New With Ask Canvas, you can ask questions about the data you're looking at in Honeycomb! For example, ask "tell me about this query" for an instant plain-language summary of your query and results. Canvas chat is context-aware, so you can skip straight to the interesting questions. Ask Canvas is available on most pages in Honeycomb. To get started: Click "Ask about this data" at the bottom of any…
New Honeycomb Canvas is a new Slack app that lets your team ask questions of your Honeycomb data without leaving Slack. Mention it in any channel to investigate a production issue, explore a service, or get a quick answer — no context-switching required. Example questions. you can ask: @Honeycomb Canvas what's the error rate for the auth service today? @Honeycomb Canvas show me p99 latency for che…
New You can now ask questions of your system directly on the Home page with Canvas. Quickly dive into an investigation to get answers fast!
New When investigating traces from a generative AI agent or application, the trace sidebar now includes a dedicated Gen AI tab that surfaces AI-specific context alongside the standard Fields, Span Events, and Links tabs. In the Gen AI tab, you can see what messages were exchanged, what model was used, how many tokens were consumed, and if response quality evaluations passed without manually scanni…
New Honeycomb Canvas is a new Slack app that lets your team ask questions of your Honeycomb data without leaving Slack. Mention it in any channel to investigate a production issue, explore a service, or get a quick answer — no context-switching required. Example questions. you can ask: @Honeycomb Canvas what's the error rate for the auth service today? @Honeycomb Canvas show me p99 latency for che…
New Query Math lets you define multi-step queries and perform math across their results directly in the Query Builder, now available across all your datasets. No calculated fields required. Each step has its own SELECT, WHERE, and GROUP BY clauses, and you combine them using simple formulas like ($A / $B) * 100. Give each formula a name and it carries through to your visualizations, keeping your c…
New You can now launch an AI-powered investigation with Canvas directly from a Trigger or SLO Burn Alert. Trigger and SLO Burn Alert notifications sent to Slack, PagerDuty, and Email now include an ✨ Investigate link. Clicking this link starts an automatic investigation with information gathered about your alert, including trigger or SLO details, thresholds, and datasets. Use Canvas Alert Investig…
New You can now add thresholds to time series charts, including: line, stacked area, stat, and bar charts and save them to Boards or your Saved Queries. Thresholds help you quickly see system health and spot when your data cross values that require additional attention or action. To add a threshold, select Modify Chart from your query results and select a threshold value, color and label. When you…
New This GA release brings broader platform coverage and faster debugging for frontend teams. Highlights Readable Stack Traces Across All SDKs: Errors GA delivers human-readable stack traces via Honeycomb’s Symbolicator plugins reducing time spent deciphering minified or opaque error output Improved Android Exception Handling: Native Android applications now benefit from symbolicated uncaught exce…