honeycomb
Build integrations and automate workflows with the Honeycomb API. Programmatically manage datasets, queries, triggers, SLOs, environments, API keys, and more.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles honeycomb the way a machine reads it — 112 machine-readable artifacts across 22 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — honeycomb scores 51.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile honeycomb
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for honeycomb. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 22
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Honeycomb Events API
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 developer...
Honeycomb Queries API
The Honeycomb Queries API allows developers to programmatically create and manage query specifications within Honeycomb. Queries are used to identify and reference queries acros...
Honeycomb SLOs API
The Honeycomb SLOs API enables developers to define and monitor Service Level Objectives programmatically. It supports creating, listing, updating, and deleting SLO objects for ...
Honeycomb Datasets API
The Honeycomb Datasets API provides management capabilities for datasets, which represent collections of related events from the same source. It allows developers to list, creat...
Honeycomb Boards API
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 pro...
Honeycomb Markers API
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 ch...
Honeycomb Triggers API
The Honeycomb Triggers API allows developers to programmatically configure alerting rules that fire when query results meet specified conditions. Triggers work in conjunction wi...
Honeycomb Environments API
The Honeycomb Environments API provides administrative capabilities for managing environments within a Honeycomb team. Environments allow organizations to separate telemetry dat...
honeycomb Auth API
Validate authentication for a key, determine what authorizations have been granted to a key, and determine the Team and Environment it belongs to.
honeycomb Burn Alerts API
Manage burn alerts that notify you when issues impact your SLO budget.
honeycomb Calculated Fields API
Manage calculated fields (derived columns) that compute values from expressions applied to event fields.
honeycomb Columns API
Manage columns (fields) in the events you send to Honeycomb datasets.
honeycomb Dataset Definitions API
Manage dataset definitions that configure how columns are interpreted and displayed.
honeycomb Key Management API
Manage API keys for a team, including listing, creating, updating, and deleting keys.
honeycomb Kinesis Events API
Process streaming events from Amazon Kinesis into Honeycomb.
honeycomb Marker Settings API
Manage marker settings that group similar markers together with consistent visual styling.
honeycomb Query Annotations API
Associate names and descriptions to queries for collaboration features.
honeycomb Query Data API
Access completed query result data.
honeycomb Query Results API
Create and poll for asynchronous query results.
honeycomb Recipients API
Manage notification destinations for triggers and burn alerts including PagerDuty, Email, Webhook, Microsoft Teams, and Slack.
honeycomb Reporting API
Access historical SLO performance reporting data.
honeycomb Service Maps API
Visualize relationships between services using dependency requests.
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Open Collections 8
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Honeycomb API
OPEN COLLECTIONHoneycomb Boards API
OPEN COLLECTIONHoneycomb Datasets API
OPEN COLLECTIONHoneycomb Environments API
OPEN COLLECTIONHoneycomb Events API
OPEN COLLECTIONHoneycomb Markers API
OPEN COLLECTIONHoneycomb Queries API
OPEN COLLECTIONHoneycomb SLOs API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Honeycomb Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Honeycomb Finops
FINOPSFeatures 16
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
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Event Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Honeycomb Streaming, OTLP Ingest & Trigger Webhooks
AsyncAPI description of Honeycomb's event-driven and streaming-style surfaces. Honeycomb does not publish a long-lived bidirectional streaming API (no public Kafka topic, no Web...
ASYNCAPISemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Honeycomb Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 2
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
honeycomb API Rules
SPECTRALhoneycomb API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 54
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
ApiKey
JSON SCHEMAApiKeyCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAApiKeyUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAAuthInfo
JSON SCHEMAAuthPermissions
JSON SCHEMABatchEvent
JSON SCHEMABatchEventResponse
JSON SCHEMABoard
JSON SCHEMABoardCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMABoardQuery
JSON SCHEMABoardUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMABurnAlert
JSON SCHEMABurnAlertCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMABurnAlertUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMACalculatedField
JSON SCHEMACalculatedFieldCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMACalculatedFieldUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAColumn
JSON SCHEMAColumnCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAColumnUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMADataset
JSON SCHEMADatasetCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMADatasetDefinition
JSON SCHEMADatasetUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAEnvironment
JSON SCHEMAEnvironmentCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAEnvironmentUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAHoneycomb Event
JSON SCHEMAMarker
JSON SCHEMAMarkerCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAMarkerSetting
JSON SCHEMAMarkerSettingCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAMarkerSettingUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAMarkerUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAHoneycomb Query Specification
JSON SCHEMAQueryAnnotation
JSON SCHEMAQueryAnnotationCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMAQueryAnnotationUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAQueryData
JSON SCHEMAQueryResult
JSON SCHEMAQuerySpec
JSON SCHEMARecipient
JSON SCHEMARecipientCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMARecipientRef
JSON SCHEMARecipientUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAServiceMapRequest
JSON SCHEMAServiceMapResult
JSON SCHEMAHoneycomb SLO
JSON SCHEMASLOCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMASLOReport
JSON SCHEMASLOUpdateRequest
JSON SCHEMAHoneycomb Trigger
JSON SCHEMATriggerCreateRequest
JSON SCHEMATriggerUpdateRequest
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JSON Structure 1
JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.
JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.
Honeycomb Structure
JSON STRUCTURESecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Honeycomb Trust Center
SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR
SECURITYAgentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for honeycomb — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Documentation 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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