Honeycomb

Send metrics, logs, and traces to Honeycomb.

Overview

The Honeycomb destination connects Streamfold to the Honeycomb observability platform. This destination uses the OpenTelemetry gRPC destination support to deliver events to Honeycomb.

Honeycomb provides an innovative solution for exploring all of your wide-event format data, whether it is metrics, logs, or traces, to resolve incidents faster and deploy confidently.

Configuration

Configuration is simple and requires just two options to get started:

• Region: Select whether your Honeycomb account is in the US or EU region.
• API Key: Enter an Ingest API key.

API keys are associated with a given environment in Honeycomb. If you have multiple environments, e.g. Production and Staging, create a unique destination in Streamfold for each one.

If you are a Honeycomb Classic user then you may prefer to use our OpenTelemetry destination that allows configuration of custom headers to specify datasets. If this is an issue for you, let us know!

Notes

Please see the discussion of OpenTelemetry conversion for how events are automatically converted to OpenTelemetry format when delivering to OTLP destinations like Honeycomb.

Honeycomb will use the service.name resource attribute to identify a unique dataset for incoming data, so it's useful to set this field for outgoing events. See the documentation for dataset best practices on how to model your data in Honeycomb.