honeycomb

aid: honeycomb
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/honeycomb/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
modified: '2026-05-04'
apis:
  - aid: honeycomb:api
    name: Honeycomb API
    tags:
      - Debugging
      - Monitoring
      - Observability
      - Telemetry
      - Tracing
    image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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
    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-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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
    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-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/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: JSON-LD
    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'
description: Build integrations and automate workflows with the Honeycomb API. Programmatically manage
  datasets, queries, triggers, SLOs, environments, API keys, and more.